The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
ROSS McCONNELL comes back into the Dublin side for Saturday's All-Ireland football quarter-final against Tyrone and will surely be charged with containing the opposition's makeshift full forward Seán Cavanagh.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Team News: Tyrone's Sean Cavanagh has been passed fit to play in Saturday's All-Ireland SFC Qualifier against Mayo at Croke Park as Mickey Harte named an unchanged team.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
TYRONE MANAGER Mickey Harte is hoping further tests on Seán Cavanagh's neck injury will clear him to play in next weekend's third-round qualifier against Mayo. The Moy man's injury is not as serious as first feared when he was stretchered off, stabilised by a neck brace, during Saturday's clash with Westmeath at Healy Park.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
... left in the forward line by the retirements of Peter Canavan and Stephen O'Neill.He has turned to Seán Cavanagh, charging him with being the fulcrum of his attacking strategy. Tyrone's attacking gambits revolve around Cavanagh in his capacity as a target man. He has three functions - win possession, take on his man and score himself. He is capable of drawing fouls and also...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
... employing Colm McCullagh and Brian McGuigan as a two man full forward line and encouraging Sean Cavanagh to take Dublin fullback Ross McConnell for a tour of headquarters.Dublin struggled to cope with the switches, epitomised by Dublin corner back Paul Griffin marking three different Tyrone forwards in the opening 35 minutes. Bryan Cullen spent most of the half at fullback, picking...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
... tasks of the afternoon as he will surely be instructed to contain the threat of Tyrone All Star Seán Cavanagh. Paul Griffin, David Henry and Collie Moran hold their places in the full back line.Tyrone manager Mickey Harte will name his team tomorrow, the only absentees being corner back PJ Quinn (back) and Colm Cavanagh (broken collarbone).Owen Mulligan has been declared fit...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
... Moran lined up there the last day, but the presence of the converted Tyrone All Star midfielder Seán Cavanagh at full forward is expected to require a particular type of man marker.Bryan Cullen has regularly provided cover from centre back this season, and Ross McConnell may come back into the reckoning despite being badly exposed by Westmeath's Denis Glennon in the provincial semi-final.McConnell,...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
... Brian and Tommy McGuigan are proving an effective pairing in the half-forward line alongside him. Seán Cavanagh is fit to start despite the neck injury that ended his interest early on last Saturday.Owen Mulligan and Raymond Mulgrew also made their first championship appearances of the year last Saturday, and offer some ominous back-up should the starting forwards fail to ignite.O'Mahony...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... Jason Ryan delayed the announcing of his team until tomorrow morning.Mickey Harte has included Seán Cavanagh in the Tyrone team for tomorrow's second qualifier match at Croke Park, against recent rivals Mayo. Cavanagh has made a fairly miraculous recovery from the neck injury sustained in last Saturday's second round win over Westmeath, which saw him carried off in a worrying...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
TYRONE ARE making progress on their way back to mainstream championship football, but they made life unnecessarily difficult for themselves against 13-man Westmeath at Healy Park on Saturday. An injury to Seán Cavanagh is just one of several concerns facing manager Mickey Harte.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Tyrone manager Mickey Harte must wait until later in the week to discover the extent of a neck injury suffered by Sean Cavanagh against Westmeath. Cavanagh's brother, Colm, will definitely miss the match against John O'Mahony's side having dislocated his shoulder.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... McGuigan was again on target and then missed a goal chance minutes later after he was set up by Sean Cavanagh.It proved all the more costly in the 30th minute when, after Dolan had added another free, wing-back Michael Ennis latched on to Glennon's flick when ghosting in at the back-post and smashed it into the far corner of the Tyrone net. There was worse to come for Tyrone when...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... Dooher is nearing peak fitness and can still have an influence on this year's championship. Seán Cavanagh appears to be adapting to full forward.The qualifiers proved the ideal working environment for them in 2005 and it looks the same three years on. For the neutral onlooker it will be interesting to see how Tyrone fair against Westmeath in comparison to Dublin.If the two-time All-Ireland...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... stages, Tyrone found their stride with three quick points from Martin Penrose, Tommy McGuigan and Seán Cavanagh.Louth seemed to settle when Darren Clarke netted at the end of the first quarter. However, that was to be their only score of the first half and Tyrone had pulled four clear by the time Enda McGinley found the net. Three more points in the remaining five minutes of the half...
