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Any one know how our u20s and minors are going in hurling and football?

Also how are our development squads getting on ? I know its early but we need strong development squads to bring quality players onto our senior teams in the coming years.

 Now that TOF is gone , we as supporters have to ask ourselves who would want this job.

It seems to me the norm for a manager in this county is :

1) Abuse from supporters about style tactic etc.

2) Lack of respect from players

3) Not having access to the best players.

4) Even media getting in on the abuse.

I'm not saying TOF was above criticism and I was the first to be critical over the past two weeks especially over tactics and fitness. His time was up but the personal abuse that he seems to be getting from social media and internet isnt on.

Take our previous manager Justin McNulty .  During his time all he got was:

1) Abuse from supporters about style tactics etc.

2) Lack of respect from players

3) Not having access to the best players.

4) Even media getting in on the abuse.

During his time , we contested an all-ireland 1/4 and went out to years in a row to the previous all-ireland champions , we were one of the fittest teams in Ireland, had a professional set-up with stats men, a brill s+C coach in barry solan, yet people weren't happy. Will this be any different in two years time?? This leads me to the question: What do we  want?  I for one would rather my county kicking football into late july/august rather than been out by the third saturday in June.

There seems to be alarm at our lack of underage success which is true however if our senior football team hasn't go the backing off everyone in laois (fans, potential players, county board, professional set -up) all the talent and underage success in the world won't do.