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Replying To benched: "Castleblaney is Monaghan's closest county pitch to Cavan??? I wouldn't like to be stopping with you on the road asking for directions." Ummm, do you not own a map? You think Clonas is closer? Iamlegion666 (Monaghan) - Posts: 285 - 09/02/2017 19:25:14 1954140 Link
Replying To blueman1903: "I'd say that lad doesn't know where he's from benched." Two county pitches, Clonas and Castleblayney, if you think Castleblayney isn't the closet to Cavan well, I know who didn't do geography in school. Iamlegion666 (Monaghan) - Posts: 285 - 09/02/2017 19:26:05 1954143 Link
Replying To cavanman47: "Read his post again. Anyway, that's me done with sticking up for a monaghan man. Whats the story lads, are ye going to move the game to clones or what? Everybody loves Clones!" cavanman47....... Thank you for your kind support! tiobraid (Tipperary....... That's ok, tis easy to misread a post! From reading elsewhere, someone has stated , Blaney has had a few modifacations to embankments/terraces, which leaves capacity aprox. 10,000. If this is true, then would be just ample for the game. (prob expect 8-10,000 no matter where staged!). Being more compact would certainly lead to a better atmosphere. Regarding closeness to Cavan, Blaney is certainly a lot closer to, Kingscourt, B'borough & Shercock & West Cavan! Monaghan Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 444 - 09/02/2017 20:01:34 1954156 Link
Monaghan by 4-5 points Panunipa (Mayo) - Posts: 103 - 09/02/2017 20:06:10 1954162 Link
Replying To Iamlegion666: "Two county pitches, Clonas and Castleblayney, if you think Castleblayney isn't the closet to Cavan well, I know who didn't do geography in school." There is no way Castleblaney is closer for the majority of Cavan people. For a few pockets in east Cavan it might be closer but that's it. Clones has better roads into and out of it if you know where to go as a lot of us would. More than half of Cavan fans will probably be going through Cootehill and Ballybay which wouldn't be a great road (at least last time I went that way anyway). If there's any sort of crowd going I'd imagine there'll be delays. Hardtimes (Cavan) - Posts: 1056 - 09/02/2017 20:12:05 1954167 Link
Replying To Monaghan Exile: "cavanman47....... Thank you for your kind support! tiobraid (Tipperary....... That's ok, tis easy to misread a post! From reading elsewhere, someone has stated , Blaney has had a few modifacations to embankments/terraces, which leaves capacity aprox. 10,000. If this is true, then would be just ample for the game. (prob expect 8-10,000 no matter where staged!). Being more compact would certainly lead to a better atmosphere. Regarding closeness to Cavan, Blaney is certainly a lot closer to, Kingscourt, B'borough & Shercock & West Cavan!" Regarding closeness to Cavan, Blaney is certainly a lot closer to, Kingscourt, B'borough & Shercock & West Cavan! Apologies...... should be East Cavan! Monaghan Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 444 - 09/02/2017 20:31:22 1954176 Link
Replying To Iamlegion666: "Castleblayney is the closest ground to Cavan though. Unless you are familiar with back roads to Inniskeen." Sorry i was thinking about my own counties trip to inniskeen next month ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 09/02/2017 21:11:21 1954198 Link
Replying To BreffniDub: "One of the games I always enjoy is against the Farney boys. Hasent been a whole lot between us over the last few years so I think it will be tight again. Yes Monagahan have Mc Manus but hopefully we can keep tabs on him. In all fairness he probably has been the best forward in the country for a while, and that coming from a Breffni man !! I'd say Blaney will be full and hopefully it can hold the numbers as there certainly will be a huge Cavan crowd travelling. Anybody know the capacity and parking situation?? The signs against the Dubs were encouraging and if we can cut out the errors then we have a chance. Its amazing RTE/TG4 are not even going to have cameras there. Somebody inform them they will be missing the best game of the weekend !! Here's to a classic with the Breffni boys shading it." According to the rte guide this match is gonna be on League Sunday: The programme includes Dublin v Tipperary, Cork v Clare, Kilkenny v Waterford and Wexford v Limerick in hurling, and Dublin v Tyrone, and Monaghan v Cavan in football God knows how much time they'll give to it but at least there'll be some coverage. I'll be there squashed in with the other thousands, hoping for a good game and really hoping monaghan win... it'd be just like us to beat mayo and then lose the next match as favourites! turkeyplucker (UK) - Posts: 137 - 10/02/2017 12:04:26 1954323 Link
Replying To Iamlegion666: "Ummm, do you not own a map? You think Clonas is closer?" Stop embarrassing yourself like a good man. Clones is certainly a lot closer to the Cavan border (and the majority of the county) than Blaney is. Just take a quick look on Google maps (if you can find it). Two minutes research (without even taking in north Cavan as not to show you up too much) shows the following results: Cootehill to Clones 20k Cootehill to Blaney 30k Lough Gowna to Clones 51k Lough Gowna to Blaney 77k Even Virginia in the very south of Cavan is less than 2k closer to Blaney than Clones. benched (Tyrone) - Posts: 534 - 10/02/2017 12:51:53 1954350 Link
"Cootehill to Clones 20k Cootehill to Blaney 30k" I really don't know what to say to you, even google maps shows that not to be true, the majority of people coming to the game will find Castleblayney closer, if you don't think that's true there's little i can do as I can't help people who don't know how facts work, see you at the game. Iamlegion666 (Monaghan) - Posts: 285 - 10/02/2017 13:02:15 1954356 Link
Also the reason for my original comment was two friends from work are coming to the game from Cootehill and told me they find getting to Blayney quicker and easier than Clones, so I better let them know that people on this know better than them which pitch is closer to their home. Iamlegion666 (Monaghan) - Posts: 285 - 10/02/2017 13:05:39 1954358 Link
Replying To extranjero: "Nonsense tiobraid! If nobody commented on things they know nothing about then these boards would be empty. ;)" You're dead right! tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 10/02/2017 13:25:49 1954364 Link
Replying To Iamlegion666: ""Cootehill to Clones 20k Cootehill to Blaney 30k" I really don't know what to say to you, even google maps shows that not to be true, the majority of people coming to the game will find Castleblayney closer, if you don't think that's true there's little i can do as I can't help people who don't know how facts work, see you at the game." Any chance of a lift so? Sure I'm only down the road! p diddy (Cavan) - Posts: 23 - 10/02/2017 13:34:49 1954368 Link
Replying To Iamlegion666: ""Cootehill to Clones 20k Cootehill to Blaney 30k" I really don't know what to say to you, even google maps shows that not to be true, the majority of people coming to the game will find Castleblayney closer, if you don't think that's true there's little i can do as I can't help people who don't know how facts work, see you at the game." You don't work for the Trump administration by any chance do you? Just saying something isn't true doesn't make it so, no matter how hard you wish it to be. Anyway enough of this side show, hope it's a good match on Sunday and you enjoy it, Blaney actually not a bad town for a big game..... if you can find your way to it that is! benched (Tyrone) - Posts: 534 - 10/02/2017 13:42:47 1954376 Link
Replying To Iamlegion666: "Also the reason for my original comment was two friends from work are coming to the game from Cootehill and told me they find getting to Blayney quicker and easier than Clones, so I better let them know that people on this know better than them which pitch is closer to their home." We know what you .mean but for the majority of Cavan supporters clones is closer no matter how much you argue. blueman1903 (Cavan) - Posts: 885 - 10/02/2017 13:48:13 1954379 Link
Replying To Iamlegion666: "Also the reason for my original comment was two friends from work are coming to the game from Cootehill and told me they find getting to Blayney quicker and easier than Clones, so I better let them know that people on this know better than them which pitch is closer to their home." They seem very confused to be honest. Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12452 - 10/02/2017 14:18:19 1954396 Link
It just show that even basic facts can be distorted. Clones is right on the borders of Cavan (within 2ml) and very close to Cavan town-it is obviously the closest of the Monaghan county grounds to Cavan county (from the north, south and west). browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 10/02/2017 14:54:30 1954414 Link
It's should be a very close game, don't worry about the distance, we are all going here to watch a good hard fought game, it can go either way , but hope the boys pull it off Horsebox42 (Monaghan) - Posts: 2 - 10/02/2017 15:28:35 1954426 Link
Here mate what are u smoking? we are going to whip monaghan below in blayney anyone who says otherwise knows nothing Cavan by 4 Cavanlife (Cavan) - Posts: 54 - 10/02/2017 19:20:34 1954498 Link
Replying To Cavanlife: "Here mate what are u smoking? we are going to whip monaghan below in blayney anyone who says otherwise knows nothing Cavan by 4" According to Belfast Telegraph, Blaney will have a 14,000 capacity. If true, more than ample for a Lge game. fao; turkeyplucker i hope you & RTE guide are right, I was going by both last Weeks League Sunday & TG4's GAA17, when neither channel listed the Mon/Cvn game highlites to be shown . Remember the NHL starts on Sun. too! Monaghan Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 444 - 10/02/2017 20:58:51 1954527 Link