This campaign kicks off this Wednesday and has seemed to slip in under the radar. I don't know what Carlow will be like but we should be able to put out a very decent team. We have 10 or 11 u21 players involved with the seniors and another group of 20 or so players have been training hard over the last few months as well. The challenge is to get them all to gel together on the day now.
Who's over the under 21s?
Cheddar
any team news?
1.Rowland-Abbeyleix
2.Broderick-C/B
3.Mcevoy-P/Laoise
4.Finan-Borris/k
5.Stapelton-Borris/K
6.Joe Campion-Borris/K
7.Gavin Dunne-Harps
8.Palmer-Camross
9.R.Mulanney-C/Town
10.Taylor-P/Laoise
11.Scully-Borris/K
12.Collier-Camross
13.B.Conroy-Slieve/B
14.Dwyer-Ballinakill
15.Aaron Moore-Camross
A few curious positional calls but that's a strong enough team out. I hope the lads are up for it, it's not much good being a nice team on paper if a performance isn't produced on the day. Best of luck to the lads!
The most striking part of that team is the quality of the lads that can't get on to it. Different times.
Daire Quinilan,Aidan Corby,Aaron McGowan,Conor Dunne,Paddy Bergin,Leigh Bergin,Mark Kavanagh,Conor Ryan,John Lennon,Liam O'Connell,Arron Dunphy,Andrew Mortimer....
To name just a few......
Wow. Are all the abovenamed involved?
Hat trick from Cha in the first half! 4 goals in about 45 mins of inter-county hurling!
Up by 4 at the break; we have wind advantage in this half...
What the hell happened?
Absolutely rode one of worst reffing performances ever seen in O Moore Park. Only for Cha and a hell of a lot of missed frees by Carlow it would have been more. Carlow a lot hungrier than our lads. The line too slow to make changes at ht and in 2nd half. A poor performance simply not good enough!
Shocking result, to be fair.
I don't think Cheddar was there, whatever's up.
We had at least 13 wides, we were very poor, the body language of our minor u21 and senior are very alike, we seem to have no belief in ourselves, its def a mind thing and we can never win a dirty ball and no sign of Cheddar lets hope all is ok with him,poor Foynan was cleaned and did the line not think of switching him or bring the poor lad off Scully was poor only for the goal and that was laid off to him,our senior goalie should not be pucking balls over the line either whats up with us.
Very disappointing last night, U21 is an important grade to be competing in to build the panel. Seven points over 60 minutes is a poor return. That referee was woeful and seemed very, very biased towards Carlow. In fairness to Carlow they hurled better and seemed hungrier for it.
Seems like we're getting the reason why Cheddar wasn't at the U21 game last night. Reports saying he's resigned. He must be pretty pissed off about something as he's put a lot of time and effort in Laois hurling.
The ref, as bad and one sided as he was, shouldn't be used as an excuse here. I said before the game that being a nice team on paper isn't much good if the effort isn't there. Fair play to Carlow, they fought for everything. So did some of our players, none more than Cha who played a captains part, but others in the Laois jersey really let themselves down to be honest, and that's putting it mildly.
Was there complacency from Laois or were they just not up for the contest?
What about the shot selection because 7 points is very poor return. A total of 11 scores as opposed to 17 for Carlow.
Carlow did it against Dublin a couple of years ago at this level so they shouldn't have been taken lightly.
I won't pick out individuals or anything redsetanta, but to me it wasn't a case of the whole team being this or that. Certain lads tried their best, and certain lads didn't break a sweat.
A much less talented Laois team beat much more talented opposition (Dublin) a few years ago through sheer will to win from the whole panel. Last night was probably as frustrated as I've ever been leaving a Laois game simply because I know that team is capable of so much more than that.
There were a few quibbles I'd have with certain players in some positions, but if you have players not putting it in it's all the one really.
Poor cheddar not alone did senior players play but the u 21 corner back and the minors played with their club in the same practice match so much for respect
Is there any way to sanction the club for playing them? If it had been a league game I know there are penalties in place but are they exempt when it is just a challenge game. They should be made an example of.
Draw for U21 for 2016 has been kind to Laois. Dublin, Wexford and Kilkenny on the other side of the draw so if they get their act together they should make a Leinster final. They will want to be better than they were this year.