2019 All Ireland Football Qualifiers

Started by Don Draper, June 11, 2019, 02:38:45 PM

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Tony

Cork looked very shambolic.

Hard luck to all involved. Good year for Laois across the board, regardless. We're not at that level yet but we're making good progress. We'll be back stronger for 2020. Looking forward to switching the attention now to the underage and also the hurlers at OMP. Huge respect and praise deserved for all involved this year and thanks for some good days out along the way. Onwards and upwards


Helix.

Hard luck indeed to the lads. Listened on Midlands 103 and goals obviously took the stuffing out of us. Like the Meath match we seemed to miss the goal chances when every chance needed to be taken. Hopefully division 2 football will stand to them and hopefully not as open in the backs.

Quick question, are Mark Barry and Sean O'Flynn available to play u20s Tuesday or is it once you play higher grade, can't go back down to 20s. It would be great for that bunch to make a Leinster final and get on a run.
Overall got back to Division 2, back to final 12, new additions blooded and hopefully we keep building. Onwards and upwards.
On a side note credit to Brian Hurley for Cork today. Through the ringer with 2 career threatening knee and hamstring injuries and did awful damage today and took his goals well. A fine footballer.

BallyroanAbu

Quote from: Helix. on July 06, 2019, 08:03:53 PM
Hard luck indeed to the lads. Listened on Midlands 103 and goals obviously took the stuffing out of us. Like the Meath match we seemed to miss the goal chances when every chance needed to be taken. Hopefully division 2 football will stand to them and hopefully not as open in the backs.

Quick question, are Mark Barry and Sean O'Flynn available to play u20s Tuesday or is it once you play higher grade, can't go back down to 20s. It would be great for that bunch to make a Leinster final and get on a run.
Overall got back to Division 2, back to final 12, new additions blooded and hopefully we keep building. Onwards and upwards.
On a side note credit to Brian Hurley for Cork today. Through the ringer with 2 career threatening knee and hamstring injuries and did awful damage today and took his goals well. A fine footballer.

Yep to Tuesday

Cork are no use Tony,  but still have faith in Sugrue but that was winnable.

Don Draper

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Quote from: MasterJ on July 06, 2019, 06:54:11 PM
Quote from: Don Draper on July 05, 2019, 11:26:02 PM
We will win this

Great win today Don.

Thanks, the U11s were flying it this morning


Don Draper

Quote from: BallyroanAbu on July 06, 2019, 08:10:00 PM
Quote from: Helix. on July 06, 2019, 08:03:53 PM
Hard luck indeed to the lads. Listened on Midlands 103 and goals obviously took the stuffing out of us. Like the Meath match we seemed to miss the goal chances when every chance needed to be taken. Hopefully division 2 football will stand to them and hopefully not as open in the backs.

Quick question, are Mark Barry and Sean O'Flynn available to play u20s Tuesday or is it once you play higher grade, can't go back down to 20s. It would be great for that bunch to make a Leinster final and get on a run.
Overall got back to Division 2, back to final 12, new additions blooded and hopefully we keep building. Onwards and upwards.
On a side note credit to Brian Hurley for Cork today. Through the ringer with 2 career threatening knee and hamstring injuries and did awful damage today and took his goals well. A fine footballer.

Yep to Tuesday

Cork are no use Tony,  but still have faith in Sugrue but that was winnable.
Not sure they're no use, they've power and pace and that'll take you a long way. We're moving upwards but slowly. I'm happy enough with the year, a lot to build on.

High Fielder

Damage done by half time. They convincingly wiped us out in midfield and we should have tried something different. Far too much pressure on our backs as a result, a lot of whom are out of position or not this standard yet. Going forward ourselves, we did some good things. Donie was all class today and I hope he stays going while Lowry really stepped up too. Our backs need some specialist coaching particularly with their tackling. I hope we can find an odd player or two that would free up Attride and Dillon. Corner back is not for them. Maybe we are forever destined to play the square pegs in round holes game. I personally think that a weaker player in his natural position is better than a good player in an unnatural position.

Giovanni

Especially when the position is corner back

Blow-in

Decided to leave Denis booth on until 3-4 was kicked off him. You'd really have to question the management on a number of times this year.

on the hop

4-20 is unbelievable score to concede. A complete systems failure or a lack of a system or maybe options to adjust to what was happening. Two heavy defeats and seven goals conceded against teams that we thought realistically we could beat to show progression. Under 20 is vital on tuesday

High Fielder

There are issues there. No doubt about that. There are places up for grabs. No doubt about that either. But let us be clear. John Sugrue is the best thing to happen to Laois football in the longest time. With the players he has available to him, I think he's getting as much out of us as there is to get. If there are lads out there who feel they could do better than the players in there, get your arses in there and show it. I personally don't think there is, and that's our biggest problem.

Giovanni

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There's no doubt he's done a fantastic job overall and deserves all the plaudits he gets. He has managed to build confidence when we were at our lowest point and has brought through a lot of good young lads. I think he has managed Donie Kingston especially well and we have seen the fruits of that in the last two games.

It's easy to be critical tonight. I have to admit that I have been puzzled about why there wasn't a bit more experimentation to try to solve our biggest problem positions but I think they've done themselves proud overall. With some new lads coming through from the u-20s, the future is bright.

BallyroanAbu

Quote from: Batman!!! on July 06, 2019, 09:21:07 PM
Decided to leave Denis booth on until 3-4 was kicked off him. You'd really have to question the management on a number of times this year.

f**k off

BallyroanAbu

Quote from: High Fielder on July 06, 2019, 10:27:31 PM
There are issues there. No doubt about that. There are places up for grabs. No doubt about that either. But let us be clear. John Sugrue is the best thing to happen to Laois football in the longest time. With the players he has available to him, I think he's getting as much out of us as there is to get. If there are lads out there who feel they could do better than the players in there, get your arses in there and show it. I personally don't think there is, and that's our biggest problem.

That's fair enough Sugrue must stay best manager to hit Laois in my lifetime,  Micko included.  Simply no arguement

Don Draper

Quote from: Batman!!! on July 06, 2019, 09:21:07 PM
Decided to leave Denis booth on until 3-4 was kicked off him. You'd really have to question the management on a number of times this year.
Go f**k yourself