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Surely there's more psychological damage in getting a hiding from Offaly at home than getting expectedly beaten by Dublin.

We got a reality check yesterday. You can't expect a manager to come in and miraculously lift a county that has mismanaged its development of players of the last 20years. It's impossible. In the Tailteann Cup we will beat most division 4 teams and maybe some division 3 teams but as soon as we meet quality we're gone.

This laois team need our support, very few supporters came to our league games so I hope we get a good crowd tomorrow evening, Offaly always bring a big support when it a big local Derby game.

Good to get a win in Croke Park after that very poor performance against Down last year,the things that impress me about the team is there pace and the way they used the width of croke Park and the work rate of all the players,so well done to all the management team and now looking forward to the big championship game against Offaly

Won today but disappointed with our performance two many turn over giving away silly frees didn't moved the ball fast enough and  our approach play offensively was quite poor our subs made a difference still lots to work to improve for the management team, London up next.

I see only 5 players from the team that lined out last Saturday evening were on the starting 15 that played Down in the Tailteann Cup a fews months ago that's some turned aound of players,so fair play to management and players to 3 wins from 3 ,next Tipp win that and we are almost there.

No discussion on the forum about the weekends games are laois people losing interest in our local championships, senior semifinals Portlaois and Port look good and
Ballylinan in the IFC final.

1949 since there last final appearance it's great for there supporters
should be great excitement in Abbeyleix over the next 2 weeks

Impressive

Looking forward to  semi finals
the 4 teams have improved from the earlier
rounds,can graiguecullen and st.joseph cause a upset .

Just Guessing Quarter Final-Draw.
Ballyrone-Abbey v O'Dempsey's
St.Joseph's v Emo
Port v Portlaois
Killeshin v Graiguecullen

One would hope that the senior championship this season would be a higher standard with a lot of high profile manager involved with teams,  Like
Shane Wall  Ballyrone-Abbey.
Pat critchley and Kevin fitzpatrick  Portlaois
John Sugrue  Park-ratheniska
Anthony cunningham  Port
Jason Ryan  Graiguecullen
Michael dempsey  st.joseph's
Karl O'Dwyer  Stradbally
And they fine some young players with skills and pace for the future.

Spot on again, 
l.R

The first and most important ingredient to an intercounty footballer today is pace. It's incredible to think that within the county we genuinely do not have any players with any real speed. Even most mid rank counties would have at least a half dozen players with serious pace to either man mark, get up and down the field or to win ball played in front of them and create attacking opportunities. Ross Munnelly last year at 39 years of age was probably still the quickest forward we had on the panel over the first 5-10 yards. That tells you everything. Losing the likes of Attrite a few years ago was a huge loss as we could not replace him and what he brought to the Laois defence. Over the last 6-7 years he has been the only defender to come through who was truly capable of properly competing at inter county level. We have a lot of very fine footballing players in there now who are comfortable on the ball and will no doubt do a very fine job for their clubs in the club championship where the pace of the game will be that bit slower. However, as yesterday showed, footballing ability is no good if you cannot keep pace with your opponent. Down had their homework done for Laois and knew exactly what to do to hurt us.

I don't know how much you can coach speed into a player but if a lot of those Laois players want to stay playing at intercounty level it is something that they will need to work on over the off season. At the beginning of the league last year and again this year we recorded what appeared to be impressive away victories to Louth and Sligo. What these games showed was that on heavy pitches where pace is taken out of the equation we have players of good footballing ab ility.   

T A SUPER EXCELLENT POST WELL SAID, 
L R.

There is lots of anger in our county
with the setup and with the performance of our
Team's, and it's start with the top
and as  im a silent one that goes to most
of ours games,  I  Do Care

Goals are killing us in all our teams both
football and hurling why can't we defend ?