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There was a 'Player Pathway' launched about two months ago for bringing players from U6 upwards, a good booklet, but it didn't get much publicity or uptake,
What Clubs will implement it?
Again all good points above, it's my opinion that each club & county should have a plan/programme designed by Croke Park/Leinster council/Lester Ryan/Peter Casey/ Paudie Butler & the likes that no matter who is appointed over underage teams this A,B,C or XYZ must be followed and then assessed,
Then the proud daddies and inexperienced mammies or daddies have an exact and correct programme to follow
And I agree wholeheartedly with the line above that we are always making f***** excuses, at club & county level, everything else seems to come first

Where's that player pathway available online?

You can buy it here...
http://www.dublingaagamesdevelopment.ie/dgaa-shop/3487
That's not the Laois one. Laois one not available online, hard copies only

Is there anyone but Sarsfields to look at in this years U21 championship. From what I can see, Sarsfields won the championship easy enough and they have only lost 4 players (Eoin George, Eoghan Keogh, The Mangan twins) and still have Sean & James Moore, Ciaran Duff, Darren Fitzpatrick, Niall Mullins, Keith Dunphy, Con Maher, Adam o'Reilly.

Josephs who they beat in last years finals have lost the Campions, there main play makers.

Not too sure on the Portlaoise situation, but minor at this age they were no world beaters.

Anyone any insight?

Portlaoise may not have been world beaters at minor, but they were still good enough to win the minor championship in 2012, so I would imagine they should be contenders

Kieran Donaghy

Edit: looking below seems I was wrong on that one

A lot of good young club players were overlooked for this panel.
Would have no faith in Lillis.

Who should be in there that's not (I'm not having a go, it's an honest question I'm not that familiar with the players at this level)? I'm sure there are some good players not involved but that may be by choice

Some decent forwards there in Moore, Murphy and Dowling, disappointing to be beaten before half time

best team won on sat, we only really had the better of it for maybe 15 mins. That said, we maybe could have snuck it late on, Kildares lack of confidence really showed when we got the goal.

Think some of the praise been given to Timmons is a little ott. He did ok given the quality of ball kicked in to his opponent but I thought their 14 was effective and important for them and won nearly every ball kicked in. Attride struggled on Smith, thought switching him and Robbie would have made a lot of sense. Robbie for me is not a number 6, he did ok on ball but given his brief seemed to be sitting back in front of the full back line Kildare still managed to get a lot of quality ball into inside forwards.

Midfield we were beaten in which is disappointing since we are as good as any pairing out there on paper. O'Loughlin was not as effective carrying as he usually is and Quigley was very quiet. Kildare also worked the ball through hands through our midfield and half back line too easily at times

Up front Donie  Kingston was excellent, on this form there are few better, I'd like to see him play closer to goal if at all possible. O'Carroll good too, think he took the wrong option though going for goal late on, if he takes a point and we go two up we prob win game imo. Ross was poor , thought Billy should have been brought in earlier, playing 3 inside into that wind was a big mistake tactically. Paul Kingston possibly slightly hard done by, but he failed to win at least 5 balls that went into him. Shiel did well, thought we didn't get support to our inside forwards quickly enough at times, which lead to turnovers

Down will be a tough task, especially away without Kingston, but we have shown good spirit lately and should be there abouts. Btw who is on the panel other than 26 named for last Sat? Couldn't think of any myself, I'm sure there must be a few more involved