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Offaly make 12 make changes against Carlow Saturday . Had to be expected in fairness .

Offaly are throwing the game?

Tipp played only u16's against us,after 20 odd minutes, the scoreboard was putting up Tipp goals as points and at half time they turned off the scoreboard completely in Cashel, the scoreline was way worse than what was officially given

I heard that last week and genuinely couldn't believe it . Demoralising to hear .

So the 12-29 or whatever it was, was actually a lot more?? Holy Christ.

Was it 29 goals and 12 points plus whatever they didn't chalk up on the scoreboard?

This is a horrendous state of affairs. To be honest though not surprising. Was in at the Setanta first night back the other night and my God, there are alot of chaps 10 to 11 years old that can barely strike a ball.
Now, some of these could be down to picking up the game only recently - but if it's not then it's very worrying to see how far back chaps are when compared to those in other counties at similar ages. Alot of work to do there.

Two sending offs in the closing stages, and Dublin down to 14 men too. Was the ref overly fussy?

Going on today's result we won't be worrying about a final. I really doubt we will even pick up a win in Tralee.

Big win today and we could need that cushion of scoring difference yet.
Tough game V Carlow next week.

Agree with much of the above by @Unlaoised

We've been on a downward spiral since Eddie Brennan left. Looking back at that whole episode now and there should have been protests by every Laois Gael the time the CB gave him his marching orders.

I don't think our current manager has the cut for inter-county management. Too slow to make changes during the game and tactically quite poor.

I have an uneasy feeling that this JMD Cup campaign could be another 2018. I seriously hope to be eating my words in six weeks time.

Goals win games and we couldn't take our chances in front of the net whereas Offaly could.

They were well ahead by about 8 or 9 but Antrim levelled it with about 5 to go

Good to hear, more important to pull a victory off when the chips are down than cruising from 8pts or 9pts up to double that and learn little from it. Could be one of the more important victories this year for this crop of players.

Lost by two goals. Antrim alot more physical.

Best of luck to the lads.
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I think we will get roasted in Belfast too

Last two games away. Antrim on 12th March and Dublin on 19th March.
Antrim have been reasonably competitive this league campaign:
Antrim 0-15 V 1-18 Kilkenny compared to Laois 1-18 V 0-34 Kilkenny
Antrim 2-19 V 0-28 Dublin (Laois have yet to play Dublin, but could we keep it to three points?) Laois 0-18 V 2-32 Tipperary
Antrim 0-17 V 1-22 Waterford compared to Laois 2-19 V 2-31 Waterford

(Home teams bolded)

Antrim have scored 2 Goals and 51pts, conceded 2 Goals and 68pts
Laois have scored 3 Goals and 55pts, conceded 4 Goals and 97pts

While we are slightly better on scoring fronts, we're shipping thirty plus points and often when the opposition floats over points so easily, a goal or two comes with that.

We have to win more in the air and keep tighter to the opposition. Antrim are fairly physical and Belfast is an unforgiving ground for visitors.

Good 50 mins,mullaney did great up front,would love see Aaron dunphy inside for bit,could do with a worker around the middle,two lads nice wristy hurlers but missing bit of toughness.bad mix up with second goal which was a killer,fitness a bit off too but building quietly.least management trying out different options.more positives than negatives

Have to agree with alot of this - come post-Easter alot of folks won't be reminiscing about the league which really is a tournament to build up newcomers to any team.
Fair enough, it gets serious enough at the semis, but nobody will be loosing sleep over it come May.
Last night we lived with Waterford for long stretches, but everything collapsed post 55mins in. 

Paddy Purcell on the bench. Is he carrying a knock?

Heard he was on holidays?

Maybe he was and is just back - a well deserved one if he was and I hope the county board gave him a few bob too.

Christ on a bike €18 to get into Semple at 5pm on Saturday.