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What's the story with Arles Killeen and barrow house is it not happening now

No - in fairness to Barrowhouse, Killeen took two of their best players - why should they prop up an aging Killeen outfit?

Galway beat Laois 3-8 to 0-7 or thereabouts in the corresponding McNulty Cup today. They seem to be decent this year, that's three wins from three for three for them.

Just wondering what the smallest club or club in each of the counties is.

In my own Laois, we'd have a few very small clubs who wouldn't even have half a parish to pick from such as Kilcavan, Kyle and Trumera.

They would all just have one adult football or hurling team and that's it - even at that, getting a team out would be a challenge for them.

What's the smallest club or clubs in your county?

Well beaten by Galway today. Something like 3-8 to 0-7.

I can see some clubs voting against these football amalgamations Monday night.
Some of the weaker senior clubs might not want Clonaslee for example being strengthened as it could threaten their own chances of not getting relegated. And some of the intermediate teams might prefer the weakest senior team being relegated instead of the likes of Graiugue or The Heath or even Stradbally who were all in the relegation mix in the last two years.

3 points for an outside of the boot. Be a great initiative.

5 points for a junior c lad with his weaker foot.

Fair enough, from now it shall henceforth be known as the "Derek O'Connell issue". 

Don't think it was a hammering Laois kicked 19 or 20 points as well...

Great game by all accounts!

If Laois scored 19 or 20 points though, and Mayo scored 3-21 or so, that'd still be in the wheelhouse of a 10 or more point defeat.

Which to be fair, depending on the team Mayo has out, is about where we are right now I'd say.

Mayo had a decent team out ...it's these sort of games where you learn things !!

I agree 100%. When you compare it to the shit we were playing this time last year, its a huge step up.

What a complete waste of a year last year was.

Hi surely there is a simple way to sort out all this gaels/transfer nonsense by introducing 4 divisional teams north, south, east and west made up of junior and intermediate players. Rule it now before the year kicks off properly that the bottom 4 teams + the winners of this years intermediate go into a 5 team group at the end of the season in which all teams play each other once with the winning team being promoted to senior and the rest to intermediate (should teams be level on points it goes to score difference, still level after tat teams get drawn from a hat and play off winner takes all) This serves 3 purposes 1: To reduce senior teams to 12, 2: the extra numbers in intermediate will increase the divisional team strength and 3: I creates a competitive atmosphere (which i think has been lost in Laois football for a long time).
Now 2018 would see the senior c/ship with 12 senior teams + 4 divisional, 4 groups of 4 with one divisional team in each group all teams playing  playing twice, top 2 teams go through to quarters etc, third place teams going into a shield semi final. This ensures all teams get a minimum of 7 games at senior for their players to be seen.
Relegation then divisional teams cant be relegated (this ensures all the counties top players are playing senior every year which is the why all the transfers/amalgamation are happening) and the lowest placed senior team plays off against intermediate winners.

The reason for all  the playoffs/senior relegation is to fuel competitiveness. There will then be only 12 "official" senior teams who have to battle every year to keep there name against a intermediate side thats chomping at the bit to move itself up a division. You have 4 large groups of individuals in the divisional that are out to prove why they deserve a chance to play senior football and a better prospect of playing county giving us a total of 240 of  our best players playing first team senior football. Senior teams will have to fight to keep their place and the intermediate championship will be properly competitive.
Thats just my take on it anyway, in my opinion it would create a more competitive platform, stop all this amalgamation/transfer crap and give all our best players a chance to prove themselves.

That's actually a brilliant idea.
For 2018, they are relegating 8 teams to senior B football and it will mirror the hurling but that still won't solve what we'll call the "Donal Miller problem"!

Was wondering if camross would be picked up alright, they seem to have a few at minor level well capable of playing at a higher level and although camross are now a junior a team the likelyhood of them training or putting much of an effort into the football is minimal

I'd say it's just young Tyrell. Doubt if anyone else from Camross would go about playing senior football.

Also maybe I'm mistaken but I taught clonaslee and annonough didn't get on

I think it's a very odd one. They played a league game last year and i think it was abandoned because of fighting!

Find it hard to believe that my own club man sean byrne wasn't even in for a trial with the u21's. Probably one of better county minors n two years of senior club football behind him

Strange alright. Fine player.

Clonaslee/Annanough is going ahead. 
As is Crettyard/Spink, Ballyfin/Slieve Bloom/Camross and Mountmellick/Kilcavan/Castletown.
Don't know the hurling ones.

Is Damien O'Connor involved this year? Haven't seen his name to date...

Anyone? I think he's a valuable player. Hope he's on board.

Is Damien O'Connor involved this year? Haven't seen his name to date...