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Davy's positioning of Shaun Murphy early on will give us on idea of what his approach will be.

Tipp v offaly in 1991 all ireland final i think there was 35,000 packed in

Laois v offaly in 2006 was a big crowd i remember

Tipp v Offaly u21 game was 1989,the 35k attendance won't be exceeded.

Championship everyone pays and you also have this bolloxology of seniors paying full price and having to look for refunds at the ground. Whatever about €5 for u16s, €20 for adults is another €5 too much.

Buy the adult Ticket any time before the  day of the game and you don't have to claim any refund,you get the €5 off

Is Clonad not a second club in the town ?
Maybe clubs should look at their own set-up and stop looking for ways to break-up Portlaoise?
Typical Reaction!! Channel your bitterness into something more constructive in your own club ?

Eh the clue might be in the name of our Juvenile set up

Raheen.
Parish.
Gaels.


There are 1200 odd,boys between first class and sixth class in the town primary schools.

How many are juvenile members of Portlaoise GAA club?.

Would a Hurling only Club in Portlaoise be an option?,and the path of least resistance..

If there's to be a second club in the Town,Who funds it?

Hardly the CB,more than likely the Leinster Council or Croke Park and it will need to be properly funded because Portlaoise will do everything in their power to strangle it at birth as what happened the last time there was an attempt to put a 2nd club into the town.

[Resources will have to be poured into Portlaoise Dubs style.]

I'm from the town but involved with a club outside at this stage and I agree completely with the Don

Resources will have to be poured into Portlaoise Dubs style.

Seems to be a serious doughnut effect where all people potentially playing GAA/Hurling are now moving out to surrounding clubs

Does the multimillion Euro bailout from Croke Park on Rathleague not qualify?,

still I guess dragging Neighbouring clubs to the DRA over juvenile players  at €3,000 a pop does drain the resources all right

Portlaoise are taking players from Clonad and Park,not the other way round.

Portlaoise is one issue.

The other issue has is the apathy at best and downright hostility at worst towards hurling by the football clubs in this county.

While it's great to see Slieve Margey in place the reality is that the few good people in that club are fighting a losing battle but hey,at least the football clubs involved can pat themselves on the back and say shur aren't we offering hurling.

What was the Laois team? What was the Laois warm up v Tipps? It's an awful result. What's going on? Two huge losses in the space of 5 days.

Its the Celtic Challenge, it benefits counties with bigger picks. We dont have the pick. Why dont we have the pick? Because half the county dont give a f**k about hurling. Why dont we have the pick? Because 1/4 of the population live in a town who outside a small core, dont give a f**k about hurling. f**k the Celtic Challenge.

Yep Don

Here's a result from Round 1,Laois against a County with a huge population and not divided in 2 by hurling and football

Round 1 - Birr
Offaly 2-20 Laois 0-08

Offaly hasnt a huge population. Do try to keep up.

The Portlaoise question needs to be fixed, its a disgrace.

Whoosh.............


That's the sound of it going right over your head Don

Offaly don't have a big pick either and still bet us by 18 points

What was the Laois team? What was the Laois warm up v Tipps? It's an awful result. What's going on? Two huge losses in the space of 5 days.

Its the Celtic Challenge, it benefits counties with bigger picks. We dont have the pick. Why dont we have the pick? Because half the county dont give a f**k about hurling. Why dont we have the pick? Because 1/4 of the population live in a town who outside a small core, dont give a f**k about hurling. f**k the Celtic Challenge.

Yep Don

Here's a result from Round 1,Laois against a County with a huge population and not divided in 2 by hurling and football

Round 1 - Birr
Offaly 2-20 Laois 0-08

This wasn't the Tipperary u17 team

This was the North Division u17 team,not the mid,south or west combined  division team.

I actually felt sorry for Andrew there tonight on his own,That Tipp team had a 4 man management team and a full coaching set up while he appeared to be there on his own.

Yeah Don,the bulldog spirit should see us through.

The contrast in warmups alone would tell you,how far behind we are even against a divisional outfit

Ft 5-21 to 1-03

Tipp North division 4-14 Laois 1-02 with 10 mins left

Tipp have brought in 8 subs

Appalling

As one Tipp wag said "any of our u17 club teams would beat Laois"

Laois u17's v Tipp u17  North Division tonight 7:30 in the centre of excellence

Celtic Challenge

Tipp North 2 from 2

Laois 2 losses from 2

http://www.gaa.ie/celticchallenge/tables