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Not sure if there's much evidence that McNulty is a good coach. His teams are physically fit & strong. If he's playing against a superior team he puts bodies behind the ball. But outside of that he it limited. We're lucky Carlow are in our group and going so bad but Fermanagh & Wicklow are playing better football. We should get through because 3 qualify. Next year we need a good football coach in the setup or we will struggle.

Surely there's more psychological damage in getting a hiding from Offaly at home than getting expectedly beaten by Dublin.

We got a reality check yesterday. You can't expect a manager to come in and miraculously lift a county that has mismanaged its development of players of the last 20years. It's impossible. In the Tailteann Cup we will beat most division 4 teams and maybe some division 3 teams but as soon as we meet quality we're gone.

This years division 4 was very poor. Today proved that. Has Justin McNulty ever won a Leinster Championship match?

Bar the Leitrim game it has been a solid league campaign. With promotion pretty much in the bag I wonder were the squad put through a hard training week prior the Leitrim game. It might explain the performance, especially the last 15-20minutes where Leitrim were the far more energetic and lively team by the end. The test of this team will be the Offaly game and ensuring that they reach the latter stages of the Tailteann Cup where we show competitiveness against whoever we may face. 

A hard training week 🤦🏻�♂️. Who would do that. It's like something from 20 years ago. That would increase injury risk. They lost. Not good enough on the day. It's more likely that we were fitter that most early in the season and things are levelling out now.

Early season fitness and new management bounce is probably wearing off now. Promotion to division 3 achieved which is great but the rest of the year could be a hard watch... hope not.

Probably the first proper team they played all year. That didn't help them. Intermediate championship is not hard enough in Laois. Crying out for 4 senior teams to be relegated.

Port were so bad it hard to figure out how good Josephs are.

We don't have a manager so they're hardly back training.

Obviously you have a personal issue with Kevin. Maybe when you have done half of what he's done you can talk. Getting that Portlaoise team to a County final is an achievement.

If you look at Portlaoise and the players he's got. They are improving despite this. They nearly beat port last year only for a last minute save. They're in a final this year and have improved as the year has progressed. Negative tactics? That's every football team in the country. Don't be naive. We're an average division 4 team. We can only attract unproven former players. Why not try one of our own?

Kevin Fitzpatrick should be the next Laois manager with Mick Dempsey & Pat Critchley in his back room team.

Why go for the likes of Ger Brennan when you have someone who was twice the player and has put in the hard work at club level.

Graigue paying another manager a fortune with no return.

Ballyroan the same.

Portarlington gone seriously backwards under Cunningham.



Kevin Fitz doing a great job with an average Portlaoise team.

Mick Dempsey has Joseph's in their first final in 20+ years.

With the exception of Martin Murphy clubs are wasting a lot of money on mercenaries.

Not Ger Brennan please.

can graiguecullen and st.joseph cause a upset .

I don't think so. Looks like a Port v Portlaoise final to me. Graigue were good in patches and Joseph's made hard work of a pretty average Emo team.
Colm Murphy the player of the weekend just edging the brilliant Mark Timmons.

Graigue could cause an upset but portarlington look too good.

Having said that Courtwood were set up very naively.

I'd jump at Murphy if he was interested. With a good back room team.