Laois Junior Football Championship

Boards · September 29, 2024, 01:17:21 PM

The semi-final lineup is now:

Graiguecullen v St Josephs
The Rock v Kilcavan

The Rock v Kilcavan will be an interesting match local rivals should be a good fight Kilcavan should be better but you'd be a fool to underestimate the Rocks chances against Kilcavan.

I am unsure of what way graiguecullen or st josephs are at the minute

Joeythelips · October 10, 2024, 12:55:37 PM

Based on this years league results you would have to favour Kilcavan over the Rock, but this is the championship and the Rock won comfortably when they met last year so will fancy themselves to do so again. St Joseph's are also strong but Graiguecullen had an impressive win against Barrowhouse (in Barrowhouse) in the QF.

Should be two good games.

Joeythelips · October 14, 2024, 12:13:57 PM

Kilcavan and St Joseph's both with impressive wins. Cant make it home for the final this Sunday, does anyone know if there is any live streaming still going on for county finals?

I presume Laois TV is finished judging by their you tube channel and can't see any schedule for Clubber

SCFC · October 21, 2024, 11:45:28 PM

Congrats to Kilcavan tonight.
Caught most of the final on Clubber.
Well deserved. The wing back Lawlor was exceptional. Full forward good too.
Think they'll be comfortable enough in intermediate next year.

Joeythelips · October 21, 2024, 11:53:57 PM

I watched the Kilcavan v St Josephs final on Clubber and was very impressed with both sides. If you said it was the intermediate final I would have not been surprised given the standard. It was end to end stuff with Kilcavan running our deserved winners in the end. Kilcavan have a fine team with some key young players who have the makings of fine senior players should they reach that grade.

There were 3 Lalors, Adam Hunt and Cian Ryle who I have not seen play before and they would not look out of place in the senior championship so the future is bright for Kilcavan. The past decade or so of work at underage level starting to pay dividends.

The PRO · October 22, 2024, 11:13:37 PM

Delighted for Kilcavan.
Look, Joseph's are a great club with a lot to admire but a junior title wouldn't mean half as much to them as it will to Kilcavan.
Some fine young fellas on that team. Could be 3 or 4 of them on the county under 20 panel next year.

Joeythelips · November 02, 2024, 08:07:01 PM

Kilcavan v Barcelona in the Leinster junior quarter final. Now there is a novel fixture.

I do notice Ballinagar are also in the quarter final, but they are the intermediate champions in Offaly.
Seems unfair that they are in the junior in Leinster, anyone know why that is?

Jd · November 04, 2024, 01:25:13 PM

Quote from: Joeythelips on November 02, 2024, 08:07:01 PMKilcavan v Barcelona in the Leinster junior quarter final. Now there is a novel fixture.

I do notice Ballinagar are also in the quarter final, but they are the intermediate champions in Offaly.
Seems unfair that they are in the junior in Leinster, anyone know why that is?

Intermediate is third tier in Offaly. They have senior, senior B and then intermediate so our third tier is junior a

redsetanta · November 11, 2024, 12:37:40 PM

Any of ye at the Kilcavan game.

Not much in it and Kilcavan would be decent enough. How good or bad were Barcelona Gaels?

Joeythelips · November 12, 2024, 08:14:13 PM

Watched it on Clubber, decent game to be fair. I was surprised how good Barcelona were, much better footballing side the the Dublin junior champs. Kilcavan have a young team but they certainly dont lack heart, 2nd week running they were able to get over the line with a one point win. The goal they scored was a really well worked move and the decisive score in the game.

Up next they have Dunsany away in Meath in the semi final who seem a step up again, but Kilcavan are in bonus territory and those last two wins will really stand to them.

Would be mad if it ended up with a Kilcavan v Ballinagar Leinster final, just under 7 miles between them.

Laois man · November 13, 2024, 12:04:10 AM

Are Ballinagar offaly intermediate Champs??

SpeculativeEffort · November 13, 2024, 08:00:04 AM

Offaly have Senior 8
Senior B 8
Intermediate 8
Junior 8

Ballinagar would technically be Offaly's 16th best team starting 2025.

The Laois reps Kilcavan would technically be Laois's 24th best team starting 2025.

gallsman · November 13, 2024, 08:38:57 AM

Seriously dodgy call from the ref to give Kilcavan a 21 metre free in the 65th minute. We should never have let them have the chance though as the free came from a terrible turnover where we just passed the ball away

No sour grapes though, we left it behind us. 4 up at half time having played against the wind, we should have seen it out and Kilcavan did well to respond. They were well organised defensively.

Think if they're to beat Dunsany they'll need Cian Ryle to shoot the lights out. We had done our homework on him and he was bottled up so well that they moved him off our CHB after about 20 mins.

The two Lalors in corner forward are nippy and useful. LHB Nial Lalor their key player for me. Does an excellent job of putting early ball in.

Quote from: Joeythelips on November 12, 2024, 08:14:13 PMThe goal they scored was a really well worked move and the decisive score in the game.

This isn't true now, the decisive score was clearly the last minute free. After the goal we scored the next two to equalise, and then butchered a goal/go ahead point opportunity.

Joeythelips · November 13, 2024, 10:03:19 AM

What I meant was Barcelona had Kilcavan at arms length and it looked like they would need a goal at some stage if they were to win.

The free at the end was very harsh alright and thought the ref in general was overly fussy throughout.

Still as you said Barcelona will have sleepless nights over the chance they had before Kilcavan's winner when they turned over possession and should have had a goal but ended up with not even a point. That would have got them over the line.

Have you seen much of Dunsany?

gallsman · November 13, 2024, 10:50:27 AM

No, but one of their lads is over here with us at the minute and is a very useful footballer. A former Barcelona player had seen a good bit of Aughrim this year and expected them to go far and Dunsany handled them no bother.

Yes, the sleepless nights in Barcelona will last a good while. Would suggest Kilcavan's experience of playing together on the full size pitch was what won it for them in the end. We were maybe a wee bit naive in trying to deal with their system. Man for man would say we individually had the better footballers but that counts for nothing in a team game. A good number of the Kilcavan lads are average enough footballers but they know their roles and do them well without getting notions.