Laois Senior Football Championship 2016

[town1980]

Ballyroan abbey/Abu rumour mill has it John sugru is takeing yee next year any truth in that???

[Junior Ex Laoistalk]

Hard luck to Stradbally today, lost 1-17 to 2-9 but were down to 14 men early in the game, Barney sent off...

[redsetanta]

Fair play to Stradbally but a game Portlaoise would not have lost.

[Don Draper]

Fair play to Stradbally but a game Portlaoise would not have lost.

Seeing as Portlaoise weren't good enough to get there, we'll never know. It also proves once again, that we have an overinflated view of our Club Championships and teams when we go outside Laois. Outside Portlaoise, we're not at much really. Ballyroan won a Leinster Intermediate, but they had been Laois Championships just prior to that, so that probably says enough in itself. Timahoe should have picked up one or two Intermediates by right but did they even make a final?

Could be worse, could be Gusserane.

[BallyroanAbu]

In a bad mood today Don ?

[Don Draper]

In a bad mood today Don ?

Period pains.

[welcomehome]

it just shows portlaoise always look outside laois.and give leinster a good rattle..Most teams in laoise just want to beat portlaoise and they can settle for that..Portlaoise never do that...thats one thing u can say about this portlaoise team...

[Keyser Söze]

it just shows portlaoise always look outside laois.and give leinster a good rattle..Most teams in laoise just want to beat portlaoise and they can settle for that..Portlaoise never do that...thats one thing u can say about this portlaoise team...

In fairness to Stradbally, 90% of clubs who win "surprise" or "one-off" county titles perform poorly in the Club Championship.
Even Portlaoise! Portlaoise reached All Ireland final in 04/05 but had been knocked out by Garrycastle in the first round in 02 and had also failed to make inroads in their previous campaign in '99.

Teams that play in the club championships year after year tend to be the ones to make inroads. Think of Portlaoise and Castletown (of old) in Laois. They played year after year and grew hardened to it.

[Thewildcat]

Fair play to Stradbally but a game Portlaoise would not have lost.

they only won 1 leinster out of 9 championship runs. in fairness Stradbally big day was the county final win.

[redsetanta]

Of course it was but my point still stands. The currrent Portlaoise team would have won yesterday.

[Helix]

Very hard to beat any team when you've 14 for almost entire second half too not to forget.

[High Fielder]

Portlaoise would have won and it's a false dawn. Nothing changes. The County doesn't suddenly become better off because Portlaoise were beaten. If anything, I think it is worse off, because Portlaoise at their best set a standard. Portlaoise lost their hunger and are probably not as good as they were either. Stradbally are not a good side. Portlaoise had them all at sea during the second half and didn't/wouldn't kill them off. We have to get away from looking at ourselves through rose tinted spectacles and/or expecting the next managerial appointment to work wonders. Our better players are getting on and there is very little coming through, particularly in the backs. I don't think we've bottomed out yet as a county, so anything Peter Creedon achieves, whilst welcome, would only be gloss. We need to plough all our resources now into development.

[Keyser Söze]

Of course it was but my point still stands. The currrent Portlaoise team would have won yesterday.

Portlaoise were extremely fortunate to beat Longford Slashers 3 years ago by all accounts. Portlaoise were  a stronger team 3 years ago.
A surprising defeat in a knockout game was coming to Portlaoise- it could well have happened here had they got over Stradbally.

Senior county final winners deserve respect.

[High Fielder]

There was a lot of goodwill expressed towards Stradbally. The vast majority of the crowd present on the day wanted them to win. I happen to think they are a very ordinary team, particularly in the backs. No disrespect. Just an opinion. They did well, but it was as poor a Laois Championship as I can remember

[town1980]

any managerial appoinments does anyone no or hear of?