Schools Hurling

Started by redsetanta, February 24, 2015, 06:49:18 PM

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Helix

To be fair Heywood have a lot of the Abbeyleix and Harps juveniles who are an exceptional bunch at their age in Laois as well as a few Clonad/Park Rateniska lads. Impressive result without Mountrath lads who would have a few from the likes of Camross borris kk and surrounding areas.
Great result all the same!
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blueandwhite1

I agree, it is a great testament to the work going at underage in the Heywood area. It is a fairly significant power shift though as Fergals who draw from Rathdowney Errill / Clough Ballacolla and to a lesser extent these days from Borris / Kilcotton would traditionally have been the dominant hurling school in Laois. Also it would be great to see more Portlaoise involvement.

Helix

The CBS in general needs a bigger emphasis in the hurling. Town hurling was very strong when they were successful!

Good work being done in Clonad/ratheniska also both schools benefiting. Reckon this Laois is the pick of the setanta groups over the years. Good bunch.
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blueandwhite1

I see the minor hurlers were beaten by Offaly yesterday. Strange score something like 7-08 to 5-08. Anyone any details? Given the trimmings we have handed out to Offaly from U-14 to U-16 for many years now and the fact that we should have a full panel with the Mountrath CC lads coming back, sounds a little surprising.

Zooming around

Were they not playing Tipp yesterday?

Zooming around

Laois minors beat Waterford by a few points last Sunday.

A selection of the U14s hammered a Mid Tipp team last night.

The Juvenile Combined Colleges team are playing Good Counsel tomorrow.

redsetanta

Mountrath CS playing St Kierans in the same league tomorrow as well.
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Tobias

Minor challenge games can be very deceiving with teams putting out second strings. The likes of Tipp would probably be looking at up to 40 players up to this stage. I know laois had huge numbers training but they prob have the panel trimmed at this stage. We have had what we consider good minor teams over the past few years but at the same time we have struggled when pitied against the cats. This year might be our best chance of taking them down.

blueandwhite1

Quote from: Tobias on March 03, 2016, 05:47:43 PM
Minor challenge games can be very deceiving with teams putting out second strings. The likes of Tipp would probably be looking at up to 40 players up to this stage. I know laois had huge numbers training but they prob have the panel trimmed at this stage. We have had what we consider good minor teams over the past few years but at the same time we have struggled when pitied against the cats. This year might be our best chance of taking them down.

Will learn more about this team over coming weeks as they compete in the Leinster minor hurling league which doesn't include KK or WX.

redsetanta

Mountrath CS and Laois Schools both well beaten in the league last Friday.
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redsetanta

Laois schools are in action this week.

Mountrath CS v St Fergals

Heywood play Killina Pres
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clonadmad

Given the size of Portlaoise,should the likes of the CBS be performing better?,in comparison to the Convent next door which seems to be winning titles in Basketball,Soccer and Football.

redsetanta

I don't think they've even been that competitive since the year the likes of Zac was playing. They should be able to put out decent hurling and football teams!
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clonadmad

Brendan Bugler went for a job in the CBS when he was commuting from Feakle to Callan CBS,None of those interviewing him realized what his achievements outside of teaching were he was passed over for the position and he's now in Flannans.

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Quote from: clonadmad on November 22, 2016, 05:27:57 PM
Brendan Bugler went for a job in the CBS when he was commuting from Feakle to Callan CBS,None of those interviewing him realized what his achievements outside of teaching were he was passed over for the position and he's now in Flannans.

While he'd have been great to have, are there not a couple of fairly high profile former intercounty hurlers in there already?
It doesn't take a huge number of people of get a sport going in a school. Look at what Christy Coughlan did in Mountrath.
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