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Replying To cavanblueman:  "Back to back league titles and promotions and Div 2 football next year......and ill put any money on a Tailteann Cup win too! probably up there with the Intercontinental Cup your friend Terry won in New York a few years back!"
Don't see what all the Hyland/Graham bitching is about, we have a lot to thank both men for, Hyland took us from the brink and made us competitive and while not successful in championship he laid the foundations for what was to come when Micky delivered the Anglo Celt Cup. Nine of the players who featured in hylands last championship match ,the Tyrone replay in 2016, started the 2020 ulster final with another coming on as sub and no doubt if McVeety was around in 2020 he would have featured also. Indeed this years starting team v Armagh had 7 of those same players plus McVeety.
It was also Hyland who converted our captain into an All Star goalkeeper.

aceofspades (Cavan) - Posts: 256 - 26/05/2023 16:56:16    2481796

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Replying To JamsieMac:  "If the Intercontinental cup was played today I wouldn't be too confident of retaining our title"
This is just a ridiculous statement it goes to show how far some supporters go to run down there county.

blueman1903 (Cavan) - Posts: 882 - 26/05/2023 17:22:13    2481801

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Replying To blueman1903:  "This is just a ridiculous statement it goes to show how far some supporters go to run down there county."
I obviously don't believe that, it's a dig at this lad who just can't get over Terry 7 years after he left the job

JamsieMac (Cavan) - Posts: 481 - 27/05/2023 04:52:02    2481841

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Replying To blueman1903:  "This is just a ridiculous statement it goes to show how far some supporters go to run down there county."
It's not a ridiculous statement that runs down ones County…. It's called realism as opposed to delusion which a lot of Cavan supporters seem to suffer from these days…. Unable to cope with reality….!

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 1928 - 27/05/2023 07:43:14    2481846

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Replying To JamsieMac:  "I obviously don't believe that, it's a dig at this lad who just can't get over Terry 7 years after he left the job"
A funny way of trying to get a dig at someone…. agreeing that the current set up is worse than the Hyland era…and that would take some doing..

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 1928 - 27/05/2023 08:38:55    2481853

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Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "It's not a ridiculous statement that runs down ones County…. It's called realism as opposed to delusion which a lot of Cavan supporters seem to suffer from these days…. Unable to cope with reality….!"
How can you say it's realism that New York would beat us? What have they done? They drew their first match this year and were hammered by Sligo, Is tailtain cup our level do you think? If it is we have won 2 out of 2. I think it's you that is not a realist.

blueman1903 (Cavan) - Posts: 882 - 27/05/2023 09:12:54    2481859

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Cavan need to throw the kitchen sink at the Tailtean cup. Then, this time next year, we could be heading for Killarney, Ballybofey, Castleblaney for cracks at a place in the quarter finals. We've also the prize of a run in Ulster without the pressure of facing exit from the all-ireland

Fontofwisdom (Cavan) - Posts: 128 - 28/05/2023 09:22:16    2482079

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Looks like James Smith has had enough

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 1928 - 29/05/2023 13:17:28    2482542

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Replying To Fontofwisdom:  "Cavan need to throw the kitchen sink at the Tailtean cup. Then, this time next year, we could be heading for Killarney, Ballybofey, Castleblaney for cracks at a place in the quarter finals. We've also the prize of a run in Ulster without the pressure of facing exit from the all-ireland"
We are a long way off heading to Killarney!
If you compare Westmeath performance against Armagh to our performance against Armagh you will understand what I'm talking about.

Breffni1969 (Cavan) - Posts: 510 - 30/05/2023 08:35:51    2482780

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Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "Looks like James Smith has had enough"
Failed to reach his full potential - heading away on a lads holiday

cavanblueman (Cavan) - Posts: 636 - 30/05/2023 11:05:24    2482811

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Replying To cavanblueman:  "Failed to reach his full potential - heading away on a lads holiday"
I suppose when you get replaced by Moynagh in a championship game you're bound to lose interest!

Breffni1969 (Cavan) - Posts: 510 - 30/05/2023 12:03:13    2482837

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Replying To cavanblueman:  "Failed to reach his full potential - heading away on a lads holiday"
He has loads of ability…. Problem was management had no idea how to use him… Just imagine what a proper manager could get out of a player of Smiths ability…?

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 1928 - 30/05/2023 13:11:18    2482869

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Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "He has loads of ability…. Problem was management had no idea how to use him… Just imagine what a proper manager could get out of a player of Smiths ability…?"
Nothing to do with the manager getting the best out of him, Smith had ample opportunities on the pitch
but he failed to live up to expectations, he could be an ideal replacement for Gearoid if
the attitude was right.

cavanblueman (Cavan) - Posts: 636 - 30/05/2023 22:34:44    2483046

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Replying To cavanblueman:  "Nothing to do with the manager getting the best out of him, Smith had ample opportunities on the pitch
but he failed to live up to expectations, he could be an ideal replacement for Gearoid if
the attitude was right."
Good managers get the best out of what ever players are at his disposal…. unfortunately Mickey Graham does not fit into that category… !

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 1928 - 31/05/2023 10:07:15    2483076

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Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "Good managers get the best out of what ever players are at his disposal…. unfortunately Mickey Graham does not fit into that category… !"
Apart from winning a Leinster Club Championship and an Ulster Senior Championship.....back to back promotions and back to back league titles....

cavanblueman (Cavan) - Posts: 636 - 31/05/2023 15:18:13    2483185

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Replying To cavanblueman:  "Apart from winning a Leinster Club Championship and an Ulster Senior Championship.....back to back promotions and back to back league titles...."
You forgot to mention bringing a team from Division 1 to Division 4…. surely the mark of a great manager… His Ulster title was obviously a fluke when you see what has happened to the team since… The team were in reasonable shape when he took over and that was what kept them competitive in Ulster but even a blind man can see the longer he was in charge the worse the team has got….!

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 1928 - 31/05/2023 17:12:37    2483228

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pity they cant get the football out of mckenna and give him a start he is proving a hard nut to crack refuses to stop making attcking runs straight through the middle.

breffnibluewhite (Cavan) - Posts: 454 - 31/05/2023 21:40:45    2483268

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Replying To cavanblueman:  "Apart from winning a Leinster Club Championship and an Ulster Senior Championship.....back to back promotions and back to back league titles...."
Apart from winning a Leinster Club Championship and an Ulster Senior Championship.....back to back promotions and back to back league titles, sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what has the manager ever done for us !!

ExiledCuCu (Cavan) - Posts: 226 - 01/06/2023 08:16:18    2483285

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Replying To ExiledCuCu:  "Apart from winning a Leinster Club Championship and an Ulster Senior Championship.....back to back promotions and back to back league titles, sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what has the manager ever done for us !!"
As Paul Daniels would say " not a lot "…..

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 1928 - 01/06/2023 10:13:14    2483306

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Replying To breffnibluewhite:  "pity they cant get the football out of mckenna and give him a start he is proving a hard nut to crack refuses to stop making attcking runs straight through the middle."
That's a total no no with this management set up… He might as well follow Smith out the door.. doesn't he realise you are not supposed to go forward with this team….it's backwards or sideways or your off the team…

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 1928 - 01/06/2023 17:57:47    2483436

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