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A good game tonight and some lovely hurling from both sides. Both goalkeepers looked nervous at times with a few unforced errors that cost The Harps a goal and almost cost BK one also. PJ Scully was a class act for BK and has some skill, thought O'Connor for the Harps was exciting to watch - a good prospect for the future if he keeps that level of play up.
While the Harps scored 0-28, I thought in general their forwards were lacking bite overall. Didn't take their chances which should have raised at least two green flags. Borris Kilcotton were no great shakes at the back and with a bit more of a physical presence up front Harps could have bagged a few goals. No.24 a big difference when he came on in bringing that needed physicality which saw them power back and win it out.
Borris Kilcotton will certainly be bitter over how their year collapsed around them, I hope for the sakes of the club it doesn't fester and totally fall apart in the boardroom too. Laois needs all the strongholds playing at the top level and there is certainly the case for making a ten club SHC in the coming couple of years.

https://laoisgaa.ie/shane-keegan-appointed-head-of-games-development-at-clg-laois/

The guy seems to be vey highly qualified. If he gets a few years in the post, you'd be hopeful he could get things moving in the right direction.

Absolutely. A great appointment and it couldn't come at a better time. Keegan is well experienced and will have a strong network of contacts too. Hopefully he will bring others in on the scene too and create something good. But the County Board will need to back him with proper funding. Knowing Keegans nature he'll make a strong investment case in games development that the county board won't be able to back away from. Delighted for him, hope it goes well for him.

Good result in Tralee but as expected Offaly threw the Cullen Park game. Hope Carlow win it out over that.

OFFALY: Eamonn Cleary; Conor Hardiman, Ben Conneely, James Nally; Dara Maher, Killian Sampson, Eoghan Parlon; Paddy Delaney, Jack Screeney; Liam Langton, Joey Keenaghan, Conor Langton; Cathal O'Meara, Shane Dooley, John Murphy.

Subs: Stephen Corcoran, Paddy Clancy, Eimhin Kelly, David King, David Nally, Jack Clancy, Jason Sampson, Ciaran Burke, Brian Duignan, Sam Bourke, Joe Hoctor

Offaly make 12 make changes against Carlow Saturday . Had to be expected in fairness .

Offaly are throwing the game?

Tipp played only u16's against us,after 20 odd minutes, the scoreboard was putting up Tipp goals as points and at half time they turned off the scoreboard completely in Cashel, the scoreline was way worse than what was officially given

I heard that last week and genuinely couldn't believe it . Demoralising to hear .

So the 12-29 or whatever it was, was actually a lot more?? Holy Christ.

Was it 29 goals and 12 points plus whatever they didn't chalk up on the scoreboard?

This is a horrendous state of affairs. To be honest though not surprising. Was in at the Setanta first night back the other night and my God, there are alot of chaps 10 to 11 years old that can barely strike a ball.
Now, some of these could be down to picking up the game only recently - but if it's not then it's very worrying to see how far back chaps are when compared to those in other counties at similar ages. Alot of work to do there.

Two sending offs in the closing stages, and Dublin down to 14 men too. Was the ref overly fussy?

Going on today's result we won't be worrying about a final. I really doubt we will even pick up a win in Tralee.

Big win today and we could need that cushion of scoring difference yet.
Tough game V Carlow next week.

Agree with much of the above by @Unlaoised

We've been on a downward spiral since Eddie Brennan left. Looking back at that whole episode now and there should have been protests by every Laois Gael the time the CB gave him his marching orders.

I don't think our current manager has the cut for inter-county management. Too slow to make changes during the game and tactically quite poor.

I have an uneasy feeling that this JMD Cup campaign could be another 2018. I seriously hope to be eating my words in six weeks time.

Goals win games and we couldn't take our chances in front of the net whereas Offaly could.

They were well ahead by about 8 or 9 but Antrim levelled it with about 5 to go

Good to hear, more important to pull a victory off when the chips are down than cruising from 8pts or 9pts up to double that and learn little from it. Could be one of the more important victories this year for this crop of players.

Lost by two goals. Antrim alot more physical.

Best of luck to the lads.
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I think we will get roasted in Belfast too

Last two games away. Antrim on 12th March and Dublin on 19th March.
Antrim have been reasonably competitive this league campaign:
Antrim 0-15 V 1-18 Kilkenny compared to Laois 1-18 V 0-34 Kilkenny
Antrim 2-19 V 0-28 Dublin (Laois have yet to play Dublin, but could we keep it to three points?) Laois 0-18 V 2-32 Tipperary
Antrim 0-17 V 1-22 Waterford compared to Laois 2-19 V 2-31 Waterford

(Home teams bolded)

Antrim have scored 2 Goals and 51pts, conceded 2 Goals and 68pts
Laois have scored 3 Goals and 55pts, conceded 4 Goals and 97pts

While we are slightly better on scoring fronts, we're shipping thirty plus points and often when the opposition floats over points so easily, a goal or two comes with that.

We have to win more in the air and keep tighter to the opposition. Antrim are fairly physical and Belfast is an unforgiving ground for visitors.