The County Board had the chance to build on it back in the 1980's when Hurling was very popular and there were a number of senior teams. Cavan won a National League Title and an Ulster Championship (what have the footballers won in that time) and the County Finals were very entertaining and competitive, unfortunately, the Hurling board got no support from the County Board and it remains the same today.

cavanblueman (Cavan) - Posts: 636 - 04/05/2017 08:52:37    1984357

The Quiet Man (Cavan) - Posts: 4601 - 04/05/2017 17:13:00    1984531

The Quiet Man (Cavan) - Posts: 4601 - 04/05/2017 17:14:47    1984532

thetruthforonce (Cavan) - Posts: 11 - 05/05/2017 09:17:01    1984624

The Quiet Man (Cavan) - Posts: 4601 - 05/05/2017 09:36:43    1984634

The Quiet Man (Cavan) - Posts: 4601 - 06/05/2017 17:45:39    1984849

The Quiet Man (Cavan) - Posts: 4601 - 12/05/2017 00:56:09    1986107

The Quiet Man (Cavan) - Posts: 4601 - 13/05/2017 17:40:56    1986459

O Rinn seems to have a big problem with Cavan playing hurling for some reason....he can't even get the score correct.. A great effort from the team and but for one player Crowley ( he got 0-19 ) Cavan would surely have won... The Cuala boys did all they could in a loosing cause... O Bediens ground a whole lot different than Croke park I should think... Hopefully a win is not far off even though it will leave Sean O Rinn in a very sour state..!!!!

Sean.66 (Cavan) - Posts: 293 - 14/05/2017 08:31:16    1986514

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5520 - 14/05/2017 23:42:09    1986698

Fantastic win for the Cavan hurlers in Fermanagh by 4-17 to 0-17 today... How sweet the first win must feel...? Well done to all involved but Ye may have upset Seanorinn a bit...

Sean.66 (Cavan) - Posts: 293 - 20/05/2017 14:43:12    1988548

What say you now John? Great win by the Cavan hurlers today. Considering it was their first campaign back in years and they had no league, going into the Lory Meagher cold, this is a cracking win. They've been getting better throughout the campaign, and were unlucky last week against Lancashire. Just shows that there are the players in Cavan and there is an appetite there. If you don't like hurling, fair enough, but otherwise, lets support the lads and stop with the constant negativity. There's good young players coming through, and hopefully they'll stick with it and the senior team will be there for them when they come of age. This team can get better and better and they deserve a chance.

Loughduff Lad (Cavan) - Posts: 2450 - 20/05/2017 15:42:22    1988564

The Quiet Man (Cavan) - Posts: 4601 - 20/05/2017 19:54:30    1988625

All the weaker hurling counties have to have imports as it helps to up the standards for the local players... The 3 Cuala lads have Cavan connections so are intitled to play for us and fair play to them for putting the effort in... Their presence can only help the rest of the players in the squad... Cavan are the lowest rank hurling County and don't have a huge pool of hurlers to pick from to even try and compete at the lowest level so no one should give out about outside players who are willing to pull on the blue and give it their all... Remember Seanorinn Cork footballers ( strong at time ) had no problem playing imports ( Tomkins and Fahey ) in the late 80s and 90s to strengthen their cause... Again well done today lads and just ignore the knockers...

Sean.66 (Cavan) - Posts: 293 - 20/05/2017 22:33:08    1988674

The Quiet Man (Cavan) - Posts: 4601 - 21/05/2017 18:13:58    1988891

law01 (Fermanagh) - Posts: 28 - 22/05/2017 11:18:48    1989236

what about Meath they have no imports playing? and they beat Antrim and Kerry and were only bet by 2 points by westmeath.

dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 767 - 22/05/2017 12:48:48    1989311

Well done Cavan. Great result. They are called permit players and every county allowed have used them at one stage or another its not breaking any rules. It's used to strengthen teams, make the games a better standard and to develop the game in the county. It so happens the ones Cavan use are in scoring positions. Cavan conceded less goals than any other team in the competition and no permit players in the goals or the six backs. But I suppose that's a good news story and people making arguments on here don't like using facts. When Fermanagh won the Lory Meagher a few years a go they had permit players in the team. The Full back was Eoin Morrisey who was Cavan Hurling Development officer at the time and a number of others. Warwickshire and Leitrim both in the final now have permit players. Crawley who scored 20 points against Cavan for Lancashire is a permit player. John I'm afraid a number of times you have being caught out on this discussion. Your better off giving up at this stage your doing yourself no favours at all. People using these others teams as arguments to down play Cavan's win are not giving the full facts about the other teams they hold in high esteem. Great first year back. I hope for the best in the future to both the hurling and football Cavan teams.

thetruthforonce (Cavan) - Posts: 11 - 22/05/2017 14:11:03    1989370

Of course there is no tradition of the new form of hurling in Cavan (since they changed from ground hurling). so what can you do.
Option 1 = nothing (which is what SeanORinn seems to be proposing. as according to him we will never be like the munster or Leinster teams. Of course this is true . Hurling is completely different to Football as it's much harder to play and only 9 or 10 teams could hope to live with the top teams.

option 2 = do something. which is happening now. Perhaps some people might think that playing outside players is not really in the best interest of Cavan Hurling and that it will put off any Local lads who were involved but I think it should have the opposite effect.

It's all about generating interest amongst the kids so that they will at least have something to aspire to.
when people gave out about Jack Charlton recruiting all those 2nd and third generation Irish soccer players to play for the republic , it was the same gripe but what happened The team started to qualify for tournaments, the feel-good factor set in, Ireland climbed the world rankings, true we were never going to be world champions but it generated interest, more kids started playing soccer, more clubs sprang up (perhaps if the FAI had managed the situation better we would have had a decent league of Ireland but that's another story.

You have to take a long-term view of this. I am talking about 10,20,30 years from now not this year of next. I am talking about the time when the current under-8's and uner-10s have matured and those coming behind them. You have to start somewhere. Again we will never be at the same level as the top 9 or 10 but surely we should aspire to be able to compete with the other ulster and Connacht counties (with the obvious exceptions of Antrim and Galway).

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5520 - 22/05/2017 17:54:15    1989509

S.Goldrick....your post is 100% correct... we must take small steps to be competitive at our current level first... If next season we can call on the same players for the NH league then we may do ok... Every win generates interest within the County and among the local players who will only improve while playing alongside better quality players... Dinny Cahill must be commended greatly for the work he is putting in with the lowest ranked team in the country...and Saturdays win must have been a proud moment for him... Well done lads

Sean.66 (Cavan) - Posts: 293 - 22/05/2017 22:14:43    1989611