CAVAN v TYRONE

Tomorrow (4pm): Kingspan Breffni, D Coldrick (Meath)

BBC

CAVAN should have a right shot here, but psychologically they rarely fare well against Tyrone.

You can generally see it unravel in front of you.

Stringing big wins together, after defeating Monaghan, is another huge psychological hurdle to overcome for a young side.

Raymond Galligan kicked every ball against Monaghan, and set his side up well defensively.

They ran at Monaghan and drew frees, with Paddy Lynch superb on dead balls, hitting 1-9 and seeing another goal chance saved.

Tyrone’s young team

HOME VERDICT:

2/1

DRAW

Tyrone

15/2

could explode with pace and running power at Breffni Park, or they might be too raw and struggle.

Ciaran Daly and Sean O’Donnell impressed in Division 1.

Tyrone’s injury list killed them this Spring. Conor Meyler hasn’t played, while Peter Harte, Mattie Donnelly and Conn Kilpatrick all missed stretches of games.

They’ll be intent on atoning for an embarrassing 21 point defeat by Dublin last time out.

Cavan may not have a man for Darragh Canavan and Niall Morgan could hurt them with long kickouts.

AWAY

1/2

“But I suppose now I have maybe more of an understanding that I’m not going to be around forever and you have to get the most out of it while you can.

“I’ve been lucky that I’ve been relatively injury-free, which makes it that bit easier. But I’m enjoying it and I’m still there and hopefully there’s a bit more in the tank all the time.

“You wholeheartedly believe that you’re going to win something.

“You wouldn’t be sticking around if you didn’t. Well, I wouldn’t anyway.

“I’m enjoying it at the minute and I’m fairly injury-free, looking forward to Championship starting and the weather improving.

Important

“You’re not going to be around forever so you want to win as much as you can while you can so that’s important.

“I remember saying to a lad that when Cyril Donnellan retired (November 2017) that I was feeling my own mortality a bit.

“That’s a few years gone but when you see lads that were there while you

However, he has a different take on it. “I suppose there’s a degree of certainty in that you know when you’re playing and when you’re not playing,” he says. “It’s probably a good complaint that we’re going well with the club. Just thinking of our own club lads at home, they had a nice break there.

Whenever

“You might have a few lads who will go abroad and take the opportunity to do a bit of travelling and they will come back for the Championship whenever it starts — be it August or whenever.

“I don’t know if you’ll ever please everyone, to be honest. I can only speak from my personal experience. I don’t really mind it, to be honest.

“If managers manage it well, give you a bit of respect and don’t flog you at training, it’s doable. I don’t think it’s a bad thing.

“I personally would prefer to be playing matches than be training for six weeks with the aim of playing one match, and in the past being knocked out after whatever.

“Lads just want to play games, really. I understand there’s the players’ perspective, the media perspective, the managers’ perspective.

“But from my own point of view, I’d prefer to be playing matches and have matches to look forward to rather than having big blocks of training to look forward to and maybe a couple of matches.”