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Three great results this weekend for Seniors, Minors and U20s. Watched the U20s on Clubber last night and was quite impressed with the team who have rebounded from the disastrous Kilkenny result. We drew with Wexford (who also lost heavily to KK) and beat Kildare last night who are making great strides at Minor and U20.

Next up our U20 lads face Offaly which will be an interesting tussle. A fair few of our lads hurled this Offaly team in the Leinster Final a couple of years ago, so hopefully some revenge factor comes into the game on May 8th.

The minors also face Offaly in their next game following wins over Kerry and Carlow (lost badly to Kildare). This game is on May 4th.

Is that the biggest ever score by the Laois seniors?

Not sure! Most likely up there though. Not often we post 5 or more goals in a game.

Antrim beating Wexford tonight is very interesting. Dare we dream to win JMD and meet them in the All Ireland preliminary quarter final! 
Antrim would probably need to beat Dublin in Parnell Park on May 11th to accomplish that feat.

If Laois were to lose to Kerry, Down or Westmeath you could have a scenario that the Joe McDonagh Final places end up being decided by points difference come end of the league part of the competition. Important that Laois put a decent score up on Meath this weekend.   

Laois 7-29 v 1-16 Meath.
A 31 point cushion after a sluggish start. That's two games now where we start off rather slowly.

In Tullamore, Offaly scored 2-23 to Westmeath's 1-20. So, Offaly not gone yet.

Good that we have the luxury of letting the u20s play w/ the u20s.

Yup, right decision.

Team has been announced:

Meath away tomorrow in Trim at 3pm. Hopefully some of the bench can get a run out here and give them championship game time.

For @Mossy Bruce over on the west coast USA, you can watch the match live on clubber.tv for €12 / $13. They also have an annual pass for €149 which is great value as alot of club matches are shown also.

Thanks, G@@! Unfortunately I forgot to set my alarm (for 5:30 am) to follow the match. AAAARGH!   Anyway, I will check this out for future matches. Thanks, again.

Forgot to mention, the match commentary is in English too!

What's the odds of a re-match in the final? Quite short, I'd say!

If Westmeath turn Offaly over next weekend, their season is effectively over.

Oh that was one sweet win. Tom Cuddy hurled some game. Paddy Purcell deserves the freedom of Laois. Rowland was immense. Dooley came good in the second half as did Shanahan. A brilliant start to championship hurling 2024. Kerry beating Westmeath opens up the group. We should beat Meath and Down so we'd just need a win over either Westmeath or Kerry to make the final now.

For @Mossy Bruce over on the west coast USA, you can watch the match live on clubber.tv for €12 / $13. They also have an annual pass for €149 which is great value as alot of club matches are shown also.

One week to go until the hurlers kick off their 2024 campaign against Offaly. We really need to lay down a marker here and win this to have any strong hopes of making the JMD Final.

On another note, how long is the JMD competition running now? Since 2018? Still no competition sponsors. Shame on the GAA top brass.

If they approach that game with the same focus they are more than capable of winning. 

The Offaly game will be a tough encounter - we will need complete focus for 70 minutes, on Sunday we went out of the game for stretches of the first half, so we need to address that. Championship will be a different animal - Carlow could have had a few goals on Sunday only for the brilliant stops by Rowland. Our defence needs more work - as Offaly's main threat is their full-forward line. I anticipate a high-scoring game on April 21st.

YouTube Channel

Meaning TG4 is streaming it only via Youtube or they are streaming on Youtube in addition to the TG4 website?

This link is waiting for you Mossy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17vFvFmbdH4
It will be live at 3pm on Easter Sunday Irish time, so subtract those Oregon hours which I think will be an 8hr difference as we move to Summer Time tonight. That's at least a 7am start for you chief! Hopefully we do it and make that early rise well worth it!!!

Yeah, it's a bit messy bringing in head-to-head results for this. One question though, how did we get Portlaoise as the semi-final venue? Surely we should have to travel to Down considering they played us in Portlaoise already, or failing that a neutral venue for the Semi?