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It'll be very tight between portlaoise and killeen, killeen  fancy their chances quite naturally. I'm not actually sure where Portlaoise are at TBH as I don't think they have played that well this year  but from chatting to a couple of people involved, the half time break versus Joseph's was pretty epic in the portlaoise dressing room and it could be the real kick start to this championship for Portlaoise. 

Portlaoise by 3points I think and stradbally by at least 5 points .

Fair play to Joseph's ,they were excellent and their game play was spot on and they could not have asked for things to pan out better . Although Portlaoise played into their hands it was a serious effort from Joseph's and the replay is by no means a foregone conclusion but at least that clown of a referee won't be in charge ,he is in good company in this company in Laois but by god he is a walking joke .

Some of the names being touted around over the weekend that are in the running for the laois job are truly shocking , I would not let them train an u12 team ... it's a joke

Hold on lads, maybe I'm wrong but I thought the players are playing for laois , not the manager...all my life I've seen laois players dictate this , that and the other with regards the manager... it's never , ever been our players fault and imo it'll never change ....


For the record , I've no problem with Ryan , Curran or Evans taking over but like every year with laois we await as to whether the players approve , maybe I'm old school but I think it's a joke .

PortlaoiseKid comes up with some good ones every now and then Its not so long ago he told us the job was Cunningham's 

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Darragh O'Se as manager and Sugrue with him is a rumour doing the rounds ...

A truly powerful performance from Portlaoise. Of portlaoise are beatable but with Healy back quicker than expected and cotter and Zach to come in its hard not to see portlaoise getting stronger .

I agree.. but do you trust our cb to get the right man ? I don't .

Great to see championship football back.. we need a seriously competitive senior championship to aid the county..

Huge match for the Heath Saturday ...if they don't beat Portlaoise this time they will never get a better chance . Portlaoise haven't been going well in challenge matches but they have played some good teams , I wouldn't rule out Portlaoise just yet.

Arles Killeen still best placed to take Portlaoises title.

So do you think he's a fantastic manager, Portlaoise Kid? The difference a manager makes is massive and this group of players deserve better. Lillis is a fantastic man, personally, but he's way below par as a manager. We all know that. Lillis is a chancer in the sense that he wanted the Laois job, fair enough, but surely if he gave it any thought he'd know he was not up to it but he took it anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. We had the worst defensive record in the ENTIRE league. You don't get that with a good manager. In came Anthony and saved his blushes somewhat. It might be hard to take as a portlaoise man but he's not up to standard and he took that job likely knowing that. Why else would he have left so quick. I respect mick but he's set us back a year an we need to stop messing about, cop on and get a decent manager. We were onto something with McNulty ; lets hope Sugrue or Cunningham or someone COMPETANT can give this group of players a chance. I don't care what the perception is : they're great lads, they're hungry for success and they know they're under achieving. Give them someone competant like John or Anthony and we will reap the benefits.

TBH I don't think he is a great manager.I just disagreed with the term chancer, he gave everything to make Laois do well but it wasn't good enough. . He is decent manager no more than that, for example with my own club I thought his reign was very poor.

With regards to the future, what happens if laois can't get Sugrue ..?... I don't see many alternatives and certainly see none within the county so that means we go spending cash on an outsider and finding the right mercenary is tough...

LIllis is not a chancer. Cheap shot . 

Typical laois the way our players are getting away Scot free again when we fail. There is alot more to this year's failure than the manager.

It's a year wasted imo.. we are back to square one and it's the same names being linked again with the job . It's all about money , if we had the money we would have had a top mgt team in place this year and by all accounts nothing has changed financially. Now I'm not saying we blow more money on another outside mercenary but moreso pay for a top class set up.

As for the local candidates I wouldn't see anything near the quality of  what we need.

Very strange TBH... there is obviously something going on we don't know for Mick to leave a job he coveted for years after 1 year. The main theory is that cunningham has the job and Mick went gracefully rather than waiting to be sacked.

In terms of a replay, if Laois are found guilty of breaking the rules does that mean last Saturday's match become null and void ?? If so does that mean Laois still have home advantage and it means jol is still suspended ...

There's a mighty strong rumour John O'loughlin is transferring to portlaoise, how true it is I don't know but everybody has it ATM.