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This all revolves around Portlaoise, I seen a Laois Today Picture from 2009 when they won the Feile.  Correct me if I am wrong not one of them is a starting player on the Portlaoise Senior Team now.   BallyroanAbbey and St Paul's are the dominant clubs at underage as of last year.  I suppose the financial pressure Portlaoise were under has forced them to take their eye off the ball.  A few years back George Doyle was managing the minors I asked someone on it how many from Portlaoise are on it and he said none, I swear I nearly fell over.  How could anyone expect to do anything at juvenile in this county without Portlaoise.  Regardless of what other clubs think Portlaoise has to get more support, it's where the vast majority of our population live

Actually Portarlington, Graigue & Mountmellick should be thrown in

These Clubs need serious help
The Rural Clubs could do with improvements but however bad their situation is the town clubs are in serious bother.

people should be careful what the wish for,the town is still there,every now and then clubs get a purple patch, and think the town in bother.If your evolved long enough you will find out this.Ballyroan you seem very got up in your recent success at under age and fair play to yourselves and abbey leix for the work ye put in, it has to be commended,but not to long ago Jim whelan was asking the county board could the u16 champ. be 13 aside because they had not enough players, as well as giving walk overs at minor level.FOR the record when George doyle was minor manger there was 10 portlaoise lads in the squad,unprecedented by laois standards.

This all revolves around Portlaoise, I seen a Laois Today Picture from 2009 when they won the Feile.  Correct me if I am wrong not one of them is a starting player on the Portlaoise Senior Team now.   BallyroanAbbey and St Paul's are the dominant clubs at underage as of last year.  I suppose the financial pressure Portlaoise were under has forced them to take their eye off the ball.  A few years back George Doyle was managing the minors I asked someone on it how many from Portlaoise are on it and he said none, I swear I nearly fell over.  How could anyone expect to do anything at juvenile in this county without Portlaoise.  Regardless of what other clubs think Portlaoise has to get more support, it's where the vast majority of our population live

Actually Portarlington, Graigue & Mountmellick should be thrown in

These Clubs need serious help
The Rural Clubs could do with improvements but however bad their situation is the town clubs are in serious bother.

Nice big win tonight for the town, beating Ballyroan/Abbey 8-12 to 4-6. The DRA case already paying dividends.

Oh as the town, goes marching in...

In the nice big win for the town statement ,Dra case paying dividends  no player that wasn't with them all along played. The chap that the case was about hasn't played for 2 months after doing his cruciate with laois. Hope for the chap himself that he dose get to play never minding which club

Just something you might think about this is the play station era so any young lad this is his life.Now i found more so in hurling obviously, the go home could be living in a estate or what ever go out to puck around the sliothers  gone after 5 mins.this is what i came up with to try and get ball time on their own. get them in a ring together and tell them this is a new play station game with 6 levels. level 1 can be roll the ball in front of you and rise it as quick as you can for 2 mins.  level 2 run with the ball on the hurl for 2 mins, with out dropping it, level 3 throw the ball up and try to catch it for 2 mins that kinda thing. every training session then you do this at the start to check there progress. as the get better add harder levels.i found the can do this at home maybe there parents can watch lose no balls and can do it any time the have time to themselves,ideal for a young lad who lives in a area without lads around him.sorry for any probs reading this doing it on a bad phone best of luck  

Dean cullen and Rob dowling  where only getting over a dose neither of them looked up to there best,Evan Carroll i thought was immense wexford could not handle him at all, first team in a while to go and get a good win away fro home.. 

THE TEAM V WEXFORD adam reilly knowles lennon  conor dunne paddy sullivan  conor hogan dowling cullen alan farrell kingston moore murphy keane ocarroll tom shields..