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Whether the rules are right or wrong it doesnt matter, the rules were not obeyed.

We will not fully appreciate what chedder has done in the last 3 years for this county until he is gone.

Kildare seem to be very confident in the fact that they will walk all over us?

well that does shock me........

any team news?

Without playing well we got through and battled against our own form to win and that has to applauded and a credit to the lads and management.

The big question is now whether we can improve enough to beat Offaly?

Totally forgot cha Dwyer...  .... I'd have him in for sure

I have expected Laois to improve as the year as gone on and tbh we have not so far. Maybe I'm looking at this through rose tinted classes but I still believe we are playing well within ourselves, to say the least, and with Sunday predicted to be a dry and quite warm day I really feel we could click and the fact its effectively knock out should drive us on further with our performance levels. 

For the effort thats gone into Chedders reign by all those involved we have to produce something from here on in this year. We have no doubt made progress under Chedders reign but IMO at the start of this year to progress would have been staying in div 1b, topping the provincial group and beating Offaly and hugely consistent performance levels in the qualifiers. I still think that achievable albeit it could be Wexford in the championship if we qualify . Of course losing to Westmeath is possible and it would be disaster for us.

My team to play Westmeath would be

Rowland
JA Delaney
Healy
Stapleton
Joe Fitzpatrick
Whelan
Tom Delaney
Paddy Purcell
Jimmy Walsh
Keenan
Joe Campion
Hyland
King
Maher
Tommy Fitzgerald

The performance was good from us saturday but Carlow were shocking.......Kildare will be a huge step up and I believe we can beat them...

Real pace in that team, I'd rather see Boyle deployed in the backs to be honest but in general thats the best team we have and with a couple of good pacy substitutes to come in.

Best of luck to the lads, I'm sure we will have a harder game than many expect but we should win.

1 suspension for such a big row seems low but thats the GAA world we live in...

In any case thats beside the point now, Kildare are a decent team and Laois will find it hard to win I'd say but you never know with minor level. Expect Moore to be targeted and he wont have it easy so its up to the rest of forwards to win this for us IMO.

Sundays match was IMO a torrid affair and the standard of hurling was poor but the Carlow match was purely about winning and we did that so lets move onto the Westmeath match and hopefully get another win there.

This is where we want to be, challenging top teams in their home ground and in with a very justifiable claim of victory.This Laois team has to potential to be top class and beating KK is well withing our grasp.

As a Laois supporter you have to be happy to beat Offaly by such a a large margin playing poorly enough but if we as a county get what we expect from this panel of players in terms of a leinster title and beyond we need to improve and we need to integrate a confidence that is not bred into us .To beat either Dublin or Kilkenny we need to be on our game for 60 minutes +.

The players are there, the set up is there and I just hope the mentality is there. We are more than good enough to win this Leinster title.

If Whelan holds the position and especially if we drop a extra man back in defence he would be absolutly fine....

In any case I dont see Chedder making too many changes and to be honest I see him starting the same team ....

I couldnt agree more with your switches of Whelan to FB, Healy to midfield and Zane into the forwards.

Offaly are very good apparently, havent seen them myself but they have a number of quality players from what I hear.

Hopefully the weather clears up and we get a good dry spell for this match, it should be a cracker. Laois have talent but talent wont be enough to win this match or any match from here on in.  Laois hurling needs a win tomorrow.