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U15 last night

Laois A beat Wexford by 2 points

Laois B took a bit of trimming from the other Wexford team.

U14

Both laois teams took a hiding from the 2 kilkenny teams in Dunmore on Saturday last while we had another 2 Laois teams playing 2 Wicklow teams at the same time in the Centre of Excellence

Sounds like we have great numbers at that age group. Have we ever had 4 teams at one year before?

Good win for Mountrath over Castlecomer yesterday in the schools hurling.

Seems Sheehan has been working hard putting a panel together. Met a lot of the established players 1 on 1 to discuss plans for the year. Wide net case with a lot of young players been asked to come in.

Have heard that too. Have heard that quite a few players have turned down the chance to join.

This is continually our biggest problem in both codes. The manager will always get the blame for performances and results but most of the time he is not dealing from a full deck.

[110 is the magic number Proposal B must hit on Saturday if a league-based All-Ireland championship is to be introduced for the 2022 season.183 delegates are eligible to vote at Saturday's Special Congress, which means either of the two proposals to reform the All-Ireland SFC must receive at least 110 votes (60% backing) if they are to come into effect from next year.Of the 183 votes, almost half - 90 - is spread across the 32 counties. The overseas units carry 34 votes, Central Council has 52 votes, with seven past presidents of the GAA also entitled to vote.]

110 is the magic number Proposal B must hit on Saturday if a league-based All-Ireland championship is to be introduced for the 2022 season.

183 delegates are eligible to vote at Saturday's Special Congress, which means either of the two proposals to reform the All-Ireland SFC must receive at least 110 votes (60% backing) if they are to come into effect from next year.

Of the 183 votes, almost half - 90 - is spread across the 32 counties. The overseas units carry 34 votes, Central Council has 52 votes, with seven past presidents of the GAA also entitled to vote.

Found the above online.

Anyone know the make up of the Laois U16 panel / management or how it's going?
Just interested as I see a post on Offaly Gaa about a win over our u16s tonight at the centre of excellence, struck me how mature / fit / conditioned looking the Offaly panel are.

They took a bit of a beating off an Offaly team who had about of a third of their A players playing.

Wouldn't most counties be missing a lot of their U16 squad at this time of year as the best of them are with the minors or was it next years minors who played Offaly? Worrying if it was.

Are you sure he was doing all the coaching? I seeing the minors train and there was other lads doing drills while McGarth looked on. Should be no bother to get a new County Chairman a lot of people on here know all the wrongs so they might be able to get it all right if they go for the chair 😂

You'll never have a problem getting a chairman

[for lads to come on here and blame him for results is unfair]

Those who have been involved with Laois minor hurling panels have all been complimentary of the work that McGrath has done. He was not the manager of this side so for lads to come on here and blame him for results is unfair to say the least. I'd be interested to see how those players progress after his coaching input at minor level. Certainly the U20 side gave an excellent account of themselves in Nowlan Park this year.

I think it's very fair to blame the lad coaching the team day in day out for poor results and a huge regression in the bunch as a whole. Who else is to blame? The dry cleaner??

Was the Setanta program in operation this year?

Has the Setanta programme been in place in the last decade?

My sister's young lad was at it 3/4 years ago anyway. Can't remember hearing anything about it over the last year or two. 

Was the Setanta program in operation this year?

[You could indeed argue that it hasn't worked here. You could also argue that it is as likely to work as any other management team.]

Hi Clonadmad,
Nice to hear from you.

You could indeed argue that it hasn't worked here.
You could also argue that it is as likely to work as any other management team.
As I mentioned earlier, identifying the root of the underperformance of the past 2 years as Derek McGrath may well be oversimplifying it.

Were nominations sought for minor management? Were any alternative management teams nominated?

Have a nice evening.

First point is quite clear and doesn't need much argument.

On the second point, nobody could have possibly done worse so it is quite unlikely to have worked as well as any other.

Personally, I think having an experienced, proven and deep thinking coach (with a pedigree at both underage and adult level) involved with one of our teams is well down the list of our problems.

So you're happy that our teams have regressed so far under this experienced, proven and deep thinking coach?

It might not be about results but you would like to see an improvement in underage

From what I saw in Newbridge we havent

An improvement? The two groups he has been involved with have regressed immeasurably. The 2020 group beat Offaly by 53 points at U14 and the 2021 group C team beat Kildare at U14. Yet when they get to minor we lose embarrassingly to both. So naturally, our CB give him another group to butcher, just in case he hadn't done enough damage to hurling in Laois.

Is Derek McGrath seriously being brought back in with our minors again? Mudderagod

[I know of a man who was asked to take a u14 divisional team here,in the past month He went away and came back with a proposal They were going to train as a club team twice a week,central to the clubs location so they wouldn't be trucking in and out from the CoE Had a 6 man back room team assembled to include 3 coaches,an athletic development person a physio and a stats video person He was in the process of getting gear for them as he has access to funds and was looking to feed them afterwards so that they could get home to study etc after training.Everything he suggested was shot down]

The successful counties promote from within and would never even consider bringing in an outsider

Secondly their managers don't get parachuted into the big job

They have a body of coaching work often done from u14 upwards and it's a progression,be successful at 14,get moved up to 15 and so on.

There's a mentors pathway in place in these counties with ex players heavily involved.

I know of a man who was asked to take a u14 divisional team here,in the past month

He went away and came back with a proposal

They were going to train as a club team twice a week,central to the clubs location so they wouldn't be trucking in and out from the CoE

Had a 6 man back room team assembled to include 3 coaches,an athletic development person a physio and a stats video person

He was in the process of getting gear for them as he has access to funds and was looking to feed them afterwards so that they could get home to study etc after training.

Everything he suggested was shot down

One by one

He didn't have a son on this particular team,he was doing it to improve standards as that's his approach in his professional life.

Do you know why this was shot down?

My guess is that one region couldn't have it if all regions couldn't have it.

Were any of ye at the minor final? I thought the standard was quite poor. Great win for Camross but a cruel way for Abbeyleix to lose.