Laois Senior Football 2017

[Don Draper]

Laois pissed its so called golden generation through the cracks, tipp got further on the back of one all ireland win than we did in the 4 years or so we flirted with the eliete... cb still a sense of delusion that were good

That golden generation pissed a fair bit away as they'll admit themselves. But its good to know Offaly men were watching.

I reckon he's closer to home than you think 

Gracefield?

[justinn]

Best of luck to the laois Senior footballers in 2016. Sorting out the full back line will be a huge task with the loss of timmons, cotter, and keogh.

[Keyser Söze]

Laois pissed its so called golden generation through the cracks, tipp got further on the back of one all ireland win than we did in the 4 years or so we flirted with the eliete... cb still a sense of delusion that were good

That golden generation pissed a fair bit away as they'll admit themselves. But its good to know Offaly men were watching.

I reckon he's closer to home than you think 

Gracefield?

No, he seems to be very well acquainted with the Junior Hurling scene in Laois over the past 10-15 years!
Far too well acquainted for a Roscrea player!

[Tony]

Best of luck to the laois Senior footballers in 2016. Sorting out the full back line will be a huge task with the loss of timmons, cotter, and keogh.

Yes best of luck to them in 2016, those 3 days will be tough  . Timmons should be back by March - We'll need him! I would personally put C. Begley in the full-back line, at least while Timmons is out. Possibly Meaney in at FB, even though I know it's not his best position. We'll have to make do and ad-lib in the FB line for now. Merideth could also do a job there from Feb onwards. It'll be interesting to see the way the team pans out by feb/march. A few newer faces in the team by then 100%.

[O moore parklife]

Meridith will not be back in febuary spoke to a fella involved with donegal new York and he will be togging with them by all accounts. Massive loss to laois and o dempseys

[gaastats]

Did you know that Laois are in the top-11 scoring counties in SFC history?

Who are the all time top scorers?

01. Kerry
02. Dublin
03. Cavan
04. Meath
05. Mayo
06. Kildare
07. Cork
08. Galway
09. Louth
10. Armagh
11. Laois

Laois also 15th in average scoring. Laois punched above their weight for year (against population), when you consider that we have one of the 10 smallest population bases between 1891 - 1979. We only climbed out of the bottom 10 from 1981 and felt the commuter effect from 1996 onwards, passing Offaly out in 2011 for the first time since 1871.

All of the counties above us have either much larger population bases or are essentially a single-sport county ie Cavan.

We're 11th on the SHC scoring charts too.

01. Kilkenny
02. Cork
03. Tipperary
04. Limerick
05. Dublin
06. Wexford
07. Offaly
08. Galway
09. Clare
10. Waterford
11. Laois

Only Cork, Dublin, Galway & Laois appear in the top 11 in both lists. Galway have always had one of the 5 biggest population bases in the country. Even divided in two for either sport, as their county is, they still would have 50% more than we have, in total, for both codes.

[Thewildcat]

shows you what a county offaly are won  7 all irelands between hurling and football in the last 45 years, only Cork and Galway have won them in both codes since then. and look at the size of cork and Galway to offaly. also laois who had great football and hurling teams in the early 80's and were unlucky not to make a breakthrough them times.

[SCFC]

shows you what a county offaly are won  7 all irelands between hurling and football in the last 45 years, only Cork and Galway have won them in both codes since then. and look at the size of cork and Galway to offaly. also laois who had great football and hurling teams in the early 80's and were unlucky not to make a breakthrough them times.

You still pretending to be from Camross not Gracefield?

[gaastats]

Laois have played a total of 517 league matches since 1925, winning 221, drawing 59 and losing 237. Score difference is about -340.

Records v opponents:
Louth........P28 W9 D6 L13. Last win/draw/loss: 2014-2013-2000.
Armagh......P19 W11 D0 L8. Last win/draw/loss: 2016-never-2014.
Tipperary....P14 W8 D2 L4. Last win/draw/loss: 2010-2002-1977.
Sligo.........P13 W9 D0 L4. Last win/draw/loss: 2011-never-2004.
Antrim.......P8 W4 D2 L2. Last win/draw/loss: 2011-1989-1982.
Longford....P9 W5 D1 L3. Last win/draw/loss: 2013-1938-1990.
Offaly........P27 W5 D5 L17. Last win/draw/loss: 1990-1977-1991.

[gaastats]

NFL

Biggest win: 23 - 1986 Laois 5-11 Kilkenny 0-3
Biggest loss: 29 - 1979 Laois 0-0 Kerry 6-11

Highest Laois score: 28 - 1978 Laois 4-16 Wicklow 1-7
Lowest Laois score: 0 - 1979 Laois 0-0 Kerry 6-11

Highest opp score: 34 - 1949 Laois 2-5 Mayo 7-13
Lowest opp score: 0 - 1946 Laois 1-0 Offaly 0-0
*one unknown scoreline v Kilkenny 1925

59 draws in NFL matches. Most against Galway (9 times) from 36 matches....a draw rate of 25%.

Highest match score: 50 - 2016 Laois 1-22 Derry 5-10
Lowest match score: 3 - 1946 Laois 1-0 Offaly 0-0
*one unknown scoreline v Kilkenny 1925

Most goals match: 9 - 1949 Laois 2-5 Mayo 7-13 & 1950 Laois 3-4 Mayo 6-10
Least goals match: 0 - occurred on 55 occasions, with one unknown scoreline.

Most w/flags match: 37 - 2009 Laois 0-23 Fermanagh 1-14
Least w/flags match: 0 - 1946 Laois 1-0 Offaly 0-0
*one unknown scoreline v Kilkenny 1925

[tcrilly]

Laois pissed its so called golden generation through the cracks, tipp got further on the back of one all ireland win than we did in the 4 years or so we flirted with the eliete... cb still a sense of delusion that were good

That golden generation pissed a fair bit away as they'll admit themselves. But its good to know Offaly men were watching.

I reckon he's closer to home than you think 

Gracefield?

No, he seems to be very well acquainted with the Junior Hurling scene in Laois over the past 10-15 years!
Far too well acquainted for a Roscrea player!

Certainly not an offaly man, and played for roscrea but live in laois since i was 13, 37 years old now and iv always followed laois hurling as i jave relatives that play for rathdowney errill, kyle and ballacolla, i wasnt being nasty when i said that about Laois football i remember seeing billy sheehan and padraic clancy mangled drunk in club 23 during championship season in portlaoise about 10-11 yeara ago and thinking to myself why the hell are you doing this?

[Don Draper]

Laois pissed its so called golden generation through the cracks, tipp got further on the back of one all ireland win than we did in the 4 years or so we flirted with the eliete... cb still a sense of delusion that were good

That golden generation pissed a fair bit away as they'll admit themselves. But its good to know Offaly men were watching.

I reckon he's closer to home than you think 

Gracefield?

No, he seems to be very well acquainted with the Junior Hurling scene in Laois over the past 10-15 years!
Far too well acquainted for a Roscrea player!

Certainly not an offaly man, and played for roscrea but live in laois since i was 13, 37 years old now and iv always followed laois hurling as i jave relatives that play for rathdowney errill, kyle and ballacolla, i wasnt being nasty when i said that about Laois football i remember seeing billy sheehan and padraic clancy mangled drunk in club 23 during championship season in portlaoise about 10-11 yeara ago and thinking to myself why the hell are you doing this?

You're some **** to be having a cut off two of the best servants to Laois Football in a longh number of years.

[town1980]

As as I no TCRILLY for a fact billy sheehan does not drink so that statement on a site like this is pure disrespect and as long as I no padraig Clancy that lad didn't put a foot wrong in his 12-14 ?year career,,so get up off your junior stool and get your facts straight and quit trying to defame good Laois men

[Don Draper]

As as I no TCRILLY for a fact billy sheehan does not drink so that statement on a site like this is pure disrespect and as long as I no padraig Clancy that lad didn't put a foot wrong in his 12-14 ?year career,,so get up off your junior stool and get your facts straight and quit trying to defame good Laois men

This fella is a horrible bastard

[SCFC]

What a shitty lie to post. As stated above Billy Sheehan (and I have no time for his footballing abilities) doesn't drink. Pauric Clancy was a model of behaviour in his Laois career. I saw him taking dogs abuse one night in Portlaoise while stone cold sober off some drunken smart arses and he never as much as opened his mouth.