NFL Div 2 2020

[recyclebin]

GAAGo jittery again this weekend for the game against Fermanagh. It would give you a headache. Is it the same for everyone else?

[Silkyskillssunshinee]

This isn't looking good at all. They need to put in an almighty shift in the second half to stay up in Division 2. Hopefully the bench can have some sort of impact.

[High Fielder]

The picture is the least of my worries. Even for us, this is winnable, but we're just woeful. Hopefully we show a bit of improvement and urgency in the second half. Not looking very likely at the moment

[High Fielder]

What the f**k is going on here? Fair play lads. Fair f**king play. We upped the tempo and destroyed them. Subs were excellent in fairness

[Silkyskillssunshinee]

That's a huge result for Laois football. Staying up in Division 2 gives us a great platform going forward to bring through some of the young lads next year. Great morale boost for the lads heading into the Leinster Championship opener as well. Fair play to them.

LAOIS ABU

[The Boy Wonder]

Wow - some turnaround. From the depths of despair to a huge win - well done lads.

[Chrimtain]

Brilliant Laois. Great to see a bit of fight in a Laois team.

[recyclebin]

I turned off the jittery stream near the end when Laois were down 6 and Lillis got sent off. Turned it back on 10 mins later to see Laois score the  second goal, couldn't believe that finish to the game!!! At the start of the league we somehow got a point out of Roscommon with two late goals and now we went one better and took a win with three late goals 

[High Fielder]

Hard to know what to take from all that. We played with very little intensity for a large portion of the game. Daly and Bolger seemed to be driving us forward, and brought the others into it. Fermanagh crumbled on the back foot, but in fairness, they were winning a very tame encounter up until we sparked into life. Great to win. Great to see some fight. Even better to see some younger players stepping up.

[Chrimtain]

Hard to know what to take from all that. We played with very little intensity for a large portion of the game. Daly and Bolger seemed to be driving us forward, and brought the others into it. Fermanagh crumbled on the back foot, but in fairness, they were winning a very tame encounter up until we sparked into life. Great to win. Great to see some fight. Even better to see some younger players stepping up.

Love to see real fight in a Laois team. In next years division 2 I'd like to see more of the under 20s teams of last 2 years introduced. In the meantime hopefully we will get over Louth or Longford.

[High Fielder]

Based on what we saw today, I'm inclined to agree. We've been guilty of discarding players way too early in the past. It was noticeable today, good and bad, that our intensity improved as our age profile got younger.

[SpeculativeEffort]

Without a horrendous goalkeeping mistake from Fermanagh we most likely would have come home with tail between our legs. Fermanagh were still winning by 2 in injury time, already relegated and with a covid depleted panel. That goal handed us the win. Yes we rescued it to a certain extent but a lot of it was Fermanagh shooting themselves in the foot.

[High Fielder]

No doubting that SE. We should have been arrested at the final whistle. At least the last 5 minutes gives us some sort of idea of what we need to do for the full 70. We can't go on with that snail's pace approach to our play

[Laoiseabu]

Division 2 next year will be :

Westmeath
Clare
Kildare
Meath
Laois
Mayo
Cork
Down

Is it me or does that look significantly tougher than this year? Survival next year would be a great achievement for us  .

[SpeculativeEffort]

It looks tougher because we still associate Cork, Meath, Down, Kildare and Mayo with being genuine All Ireland contenders. Mayo aside none of them are. They are all in div2 on merit.