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Hurling is an issue in Portlaoise definitely and they need to grow participation,,Portlaoise parish needs a full time GDA.

Highlighted in the strategic plan, nothing done about it even though the funding is in place.

There's also an issue in the likes of the CBS where more first years this year would play cricket than hurling.


Also as I mentioned in a previous post we have 16 clubs playing u13  hurling and roughly 400 u13 hurlers,how do we grow the numbers to say 500 and then 600 in that cohort every year.

For starters we have 48 clubs which means 32 clubs aren't putting out even an u13 hurling team

We should be looking to get the club numbers from 16 to 22

How do we do this

One solution

Play an u13 league and championship for clubs low on numbers or getting hurling off the ground

Make the numbers as low as 7/8 a side for games to take place and put proper governance and support in place for them to grow


All this then feeds into my 2 visits to the CoE every 3 weeks suggestion for expert support and coaching,no club starting up or their hurlers gets neglected or left behind.

Maybe if posters identified the problems and then came up with solutions

We would be a lot further on

I could put together a list of 15 people that I would want front and centre in the supporters club and I would be confident that everyone on here would have at least 10 of them on their shortlist

Fair enough but would they want to do it? It's easy to say X or Y would be a great lad to get on board but a lot of people are happy enough not to be involved.

Often easier with some to curse the dark than light a candle

Simple answer

Start by asking them

I could put together a list of 15 people that I would want front and centre in the supporters club and I would be confident that everyone on here would have at least 10 of them on their shortlist

Cummings leaving is a nice Xmas present for sensible British people.

The Tories have realised that Covid has fecked up the economy even more than other places, whatever about 1966 on Covid the Germans won 5-0. So some reality about Brexit is needed. The planning has not been done, hence the talk now about transitional arrangements. The EU will allow transitional arrangements so that they are not blamed for chaos in January, but they will ensure that everything is done properly by March or April.

Johnson ruled out any transitional agreements by his government and the deadline was 15th October.

He also ruled out agreeing to any transitional agreements if they were to put forward by the EU side

Id be taking him at his word

and Out you on go on the first chime of midnight new years eve.

It shouldnt be allowed to drag on and on and on,by the British side who cant get their shite together.

While its great to see people talking about fundraising and money.

We should be also talking about governance and doing better with what we currently have already


1.We have been allocated funds for 1 games manager and 4 GDA's, we have never had all these posts filled at the one time, why not?

2.There have been 2 strategic plans published in the last 6/7 years, why have little if any of the findings been put in place, even those which were revenue neutral?.

3.Why do we have numerous issues relating to the running of our underage hurling,

Lets take one, Why is juvenile gradings in the hands of one man who bases the gradings on what you have or haven't done against his club, in any other county the clubs send in a rep to a gradings meeting where it is trashed out, here one man decides.

4.The Website is an embarrassment, there's no shortage of qualified people who could make massive improvements in this area.

5.The CoE came in 1% over budget and credit in particular is due to the treasurer for keeping a multimillion euro build on time and on track, God willing when covid goes,

We need to sweat those assets.

one idea of mine

at juvenile level,Expose every hurler and club coach in the county to regular s&c and skills best practice

at u13 we have 16 teams

16 teams x 25 players =400 players

we break it into 12 groups of 33 players and we do it in 3 week cycles

so for S&C,each group is brought into the CoE and given 90 mins of expert coaching, both coaches and players are given their home work and they come back in 3 weeks

skills the same system,

We utilize the GDA's,get in outside experts the likes of Martin Fogarty,Paudie Butler etc,but we also utilize the great hurling men in this county, Your PC's your cheddars and also our current players (We have at least 14 u13 hurling keepers in this county who adore Enda Rowland),just imagine what 3 sessions a year with Enda would do to those lads

Our aim should be to have every u13 hurler getting 2 sessions in the CoE every 3 weeks

And that's just the u13's

Similar needs to be done with the 15's/17's even the 20's

We have a small player base and we need every player to progress, no one gets left behind.

what sort of money is this?

https://www.iviewhd.com/catalog/

Thats the link from above with the price break down

€19 month or
€79 for 6 months

What sort of a box do I need to buy for this

It's bit dearer than normal iptv and I've used a few but this is the best about - try the 3 day free trial out, no maintenance no buffering, can rewind tv for 7 days and record. I think it's run by our Chinese friends https://www.iviewhd.com/catalog/. Can recommend, had it about 6 months glitch free.

Signed up for the free 3 day trial

It's pending atm

When it arrives

What do i actually do then?

Please keep in minding that you are talking to a dribbling idiot in these matters

Thanks in advance

Two stark examples for those of ye defending the county board

Laois nearly lost the services of Derek McGrath because it took the CB 10/11 weeks to make a decision to allow him to get on board

A simple Yes or No was what was required

Why the delay

Because if they got McGrath on board it would show up a lack of a "name" for the other underage teams instead of going balls out to get other top of the line coach's in for the u20's

Tipp county board

Tipp footballers in Munster final Bloody Sunday centenary weekend

Want to play in the original green and white jersey

Roadblocks in the way as regards sanctioned jersey,sanctioned colors with croke park,o'neills having a jersey and stock in place and also with Teneo  the sponsor

Within 36 hours over a weekend

Everyone of those issues are sorted,tipp will play in the Bloody Sunday colors with Tipperary not Teneo across their midriffs

Why because their CB got off their holes and did what was necessary


Everything that Eddie Brennan said was True

True in relation to the Laois CB,the Hurling board and also in relation at the very end to Ned Quinn and the KK CB

Yeah, you're right. It needs to be in the city for concerts as big artists and music lovers wouldn't head to places like Dungannon, Thurles, Punchestown, Stradbally and Slane.....

Not that I'm advocating building the stadium in Dungannon.

The last concert in Thurles was pulled because they couldn't sell enough tickets

Punchestown is also long gone

Slane isn't an annual event

Which leaves Stradbally as the last major annual camping out festival,good luck to you if want to do similar with Dungannon

The reality is that most major concerts are held in city stadia for reasons such as accessibility,size,comfort,bars and concessions

But the stadia are built for sporting reasons and they then compete for concerts.

The sporting rationale for this stadium is stronger outside Belfast. And Belfast already has stadia and outdoor concert venues.

Belfast is the second largest city on the Island,if you want to develop and enhance the GAAs presence in the largest urban centers where let's face it most of the population movement is now to.

You need an adequately developed stadium  in a city environment

Lads suggesting lurgan or Dungannon is the equivalent of not developing Croke park in the 1990's and moving it out to Newbridge or Portlaoise.

Yeah, you're right. It needs to be in the city for concerts as big artists and music lovers wouldn't head to places like Dungannon, Thurles, Punchestown, Stradbally and Slane.....

Not that I'm advocating building the stadium in Dungannon.

The last concert in Thurles was pulled because they couldn't sell enough tickets

Punchestown is also long gone

Slane isn't an annual event

Which leaves Stradbally as the last major annual camping out festival,good luck to you if want to do similar with Dungannon

The reality is that most major concerts are held in city stadia for reasons such as accessibility,size,comfort,bars and concessions

[Somewhere around Dungannon would probably suit most but it's going to be Casement]

Absolutely they should get teams up for the opening of it or some other piss about match but not a national final. The supporters of those counties deserve fair access to that game. Not dragged the entire length of the country.

Agree with that. The stadium should be developed to meet a need that is there. Not to move games around that already can be accommodated. I get the point that Clones would need major redevelopment and that is probably not going to happen and it's therefore legitimate to look somewhere else in Ulster for a leading stadium.

Somewhere around Dungannon would probably suit most but it's going to be Casement

By that logic Croke Park should have been put somewhere central like Athlone

No it wouldn't

You want Dungannon because I presume it's central for Ulster

Somewhere in the midlands would be central for the whole of Ireland

Where as best practice would suggest that both stadia need to be in a city location

I can't see a stadium in Dungannon attracting too many corporate events or concerts

[Somewhere around Dungannon would probably suit most but it's going to be Casement]

Absolutely they should get teams up for the opening of it or some other piss about match but not a national final. The supporters of those counties deserve fair access to that game. Not dragged the entire length of the country.

Agree with that. The stadium should be developed to meet a need that is there. Not to move games around that already can be accommodated. I get the point that Clones would need major redevelopment and that is probably not going to happen and it's therefore legitimate to look somewhere else in Ulster for a leading stadium.

Somewhere around Dungannon would probably suit most but it's going to be Casement

By that logic Croke Park should have been put somewhere central like Athlone

Absolutely they should get teams up for the opening of it or some other piss about match but not a national final. The supporters of those counties deserve fair access to that game. Not dragged the entire length of the country.

Agree with that. The stadium should be developed to meet a need that is there. Not to move games around that already can be accommodated. I get the point that Clones would need major redevelopment and that is probably not going to happen and it's therefore legitimate to look somewhere else in Ulster for a leading stadium.

Somewhere around Dungannon would probably suit most but it's going to be Casement

Apart from a Nathan Carter concert who's going to go a gig in Dungannon with very few hotels in the area?

This is a multi functional stadium.......

I wasn't thinking about gigs. How many gigs was Casement planning to hold and how many of these would have been additional gigs for NI (rather than displaced from another venue?)

Condition of the planning is 3 Concerts per year

Hard to disagree with any of the above.
We are probably trying to play a game that protects us from big set backs, without maybe having the exact shapes to fit certain holes. We don't have a ready made target man to hold ball up and wait for the cavalry, while being a threat in himself. It was easier to do this in OMP last year than for anyone to do it in CP last night.
I think maybe James Barry and Tipp weren't as sharp as they could have been in countering it second day out last year.

There were some positives, with some excellent scores from distance and quite a few "line breaks" with ball carried and worked through the lines.
In reality it was probably what most of us expected (and the players looked like that too). Maybe bar the second goal.

It's hard to see us living with any of the Munster teams. We have shipped some bad beatings in these kinda games. It's a pity our panel isn't as strong as it could be. Laois operating with 75% of the players involved that we want involved is very different to any of the other counties in the same situation.
I get the impression that we won't be seeing EB on the sideline next year, and I hope some thought has gone into potential replacements. Going back for a ride on the merry ground frightens me.

Eddie will be gone after this season

And no serious manager is going to consider a county where a significant minority won't commit