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Were laois U15s hurling Limerick over the weekend?

Limerick arrived with 2 teams and split them more or less evenly according to their mentors

Laois A conceded 7/8/9 goals in the first half alone

Laois B got an absolute trimming

Huge disparity in terms of coaching set up,warms up and organisation

Laois minors played the Clare celtic challenge team last week,competitive but beaten also

Laois minors are due to play Tipperary minors this Tuesday

It was a bit silly to go play Limerick. A quick scan of last year's results would have shown that there is simply way too much between the teams to make a "challenge" out of it.

Agreed

but its hard to know what county this group would beat given where they are at.

I hope Im very wrong but the 2022 Minors will be regarded as the golden year for many years to come

Your definitely not wrong. The development teams of last year and this year are poorly run with no proper structures or long term planning in place. We're only ticking boxes. No proper investment and now no required amount of gdo,s.

Shocking news from Trumera. God rest the poor chap.

Absolutely horrific news. Such a talented lad in all walks of life. Deepest sympathies to family, friends and the trumera club.

Laois u20s played westmeath in Coe yesterday. Very poor performance against an unfancied westmeath side. Laois near enough full strength except for aaron phelan and ciaran flynn who were injured.. Left with 5 min to go and laois were up by 2 or 3 points.

hardly know the team ?

Aodh Bowes, Daniel Bowe, Jim O'Connor, David Dooley, Joe Corby

                   Ben campion
Bobby Murphy.      Lawson.     Cathal Cuddy
Philip Tynan.     Tom Cuddy.     Rory Dunne
       Cody comerford.      Podge. Brennan
Cian conroy.     Cillian Dunne.     Brian duggan
Noah quinlan.    Ger Quinlan.   James cuddy

Ross coffey
Cathal Murphy
Colm byrne
Were the substitutes that came on. Its depressing that portlaoise have only one representative on the panel which is the sub goalkeeper.

Is that the full team? Must be lads missing if that is the line out.

Aaron phelan, ciaran flynn,,possibly sean fitz and loughlin conway would pushing hard to start. Good few especially to the age didn't commit for one reason or another. There a very physically small team with one or two exceptions.. a good few of them seemed to be way off the pace fitness  wise.

Aodh Bowes, Joe Corby, David Dooley. Are they not available?

Aodh Bowes withdrew
Joe corby unsure
David dooley rugby
Padraig rafter football

Daniel Bowe, Jim O'Connor?

Jim o Connor part of panel but not getting a look in
Daniel bowe never went in as far as I know

Laois u20s played westmeath in Coe yesterday. Very poor performance against an unfancied westmeath side. Laois near enough full strength except for aaron phelan and ciaran flynn who were injured.. Left with 5 min to go and laois were up by 2 or 3 points.

hardly know the team ?

Aodh Bowes, Daniel Bowe, Jim O'Connor, David Dooley, Joe Corby

                   Ben campion
Bobby Murphy.      Lawson.     Cathal Cuddy
Philip Tynan.     Tom Cuddy.     Rory Dunne
       Cody comerford.      Podge. Brennan
Cian conroy.     Cillian Dunne.     Brian duggan
Noah quinlan.    Ger Quinlan.   James cuddy

Ross coffey
Cathal Murphy
Colm byrne
Were the substitutes that came on. Its depressing that portlaoise have only one representative on the panel which is the sub goalkeeper.

Is that the full team? Must be lads missing if that is the line out.

Aaron phelan, ciaran flynn,,possibly sean fitz and loughlin conway would pushing hard to start. Good few especially to the age didn't commit for one reason or another. There a very physically small team with one or two exceptions.. a good few of them seemed to be way off the pace fitness  wise.

Aodh Bowes, Joe Corby, David Dooley. Are they not available?

Aodh Bowes withdrew
Joe corby unsure
David dooley rugby
Padraig rafter football

Laois u20s played westmeath in Coe yesterday. Very poor performance against an unfancied westmeath side. Laois near enough full strength except for aaron phelan and ciaran flynn who were injured.. Left with 5 min to go and laois were up by 2 or 3 points.

hardly know the team ?

                   Ben campion
Bobby Murphy.      Lawson.     Cathal Cuddy
Philip Tynan.     Tom Cuddy.     Rory Dunne
       Cody comerford.      Podge. Brennan
Cian conroy.     Cillian Dunne.     Brian duggan
Noah quinlan.    Ger Quinlan.   James cuddy

Ross coffey
Cathal Murphy
Colm byrne
Were the substitutes that came on. Its depressing that portlaoise have only one representative on the panel which is the sub goalkeeper.

Is that the full team? Must be lads missing if that is the line out.

Aaron phelan, ciaran flynn,,possibly sean fitz and loughlin conway would pushing hard to start. Good few especially to the age didn't commit for one reason or another. There a very physically small team with one or two exceptions.. a good few of them seemed to be way off the pace fitness  wise.

Laois u20s played westmeath in Coe yesterday. Very poor performance against an unfancied westmeath side. Laois near enough full strength except for aaron phelan and ciaran flynn who were injured.. Left with 5 min to go and laois were up by 2 or 3 points.

hardly know the team ?

                   Ben campion
Bobby Murphy.      Lawson.     Cathal Cuddy
Philip Tynan.     Tom Cuddy.     Rory Dunne
       Cody comerford.      Podge. Brennan
Cian conroy.     Cillian Dunne.     Brian duggan
Noah quinlan.    Ger Quinlan.   James cuddy

Ross coffey
Cathal Murphy
Colm byrne
Were the substitutes that came on. Its depressing that portlaoise have only one representative on the panel which is the sub goalkeeper.

Laois u20s played westmeath in Coe yesterday. Very poor performance against an unfancied westmeath side. Laois near enough full strength except for aaron phelan and ciaran flynn who were injured.. Left with 5 min to go and laois were up by 2 or 3 points.

I couldn't agree more with the last 2 posts. Off the back of their best minor team in 20 years the Offaly county board had the vision to try and develop that group of players standard even more. playing at the very top level gives those players the confidence to go and try and develop at senior inter county level.
Where is that vision in this county. Secondary school hurling is absolutely VITAL in any player/club/county's development.
if you break down the standard of hurling in our secondary schools it makes for horrific reading
(All levels and open to correction)

All Portlaoise schools, C level. Primary concern - Football and soccer
Portarlington, No competitive hurling that aware of. Primary concern - Football and rugby
Mountmellick, No competitive hurling that aware of. Primary concern - football
Clonaslee, C level. Make the best of small numbers available.
Heywood, Poor B level efforts. Primary concern - Football and Basketball
Rathdowney, C Level. Doing a great job with numbers available.
Mountrath, B level. The standard bearers for 2nd level hurling in this county.

The only slight sliver lining is The Harps lads going to Johnstown. Many have Leinster B medals over the last number of years. Playing in the A junior and Senior Championships this year.

There's no easy fix obviously but if the county board were serious about hurling they would employ GDAS and pay them well.
Address the player pathways. Primary/secondary/third level in tandem with the development squads.
A GDA specifically assigned to primary and secondary schools development. One goal being the development of a Laois Schools team in A grade at 14, 16 and 18s for league and championship.

Hearing Jimmy dunne is in consideration for BK job
Harps gone with Alan Guilfoyle and Ross Young.
Are abbeyleix staying with Derek Dunne

Harps were the better team alright in a tight dogged affair. Camross were too reliant on mossy keyes and Dan delaney frees. Lot of young talent in The harps.  They need to make a statement at senior level next year.
Terrible week for Abbeyleix on the other hand. Strong favourites for that u20 championship and went out poorly yesterday. I hope they can still kick on next year. Hurling in Laois needs the likes of Abbeyleix and The Harps to be competing strong at senior level.

What a win for the camross u20 hurlers this afternoon. Mossy keyes is the real deal. They bulied a big strong physical abbeyleix team in their own patch. Fancy rathdowney Errill to win the other semi. The Harps down a good few apparently. 
Final down for next Saturday in the centre of excellence

Lot of senior clubs looking for new managers in 2023.
I believe R/E parted company with Jimmy dunne last night
B/K, The Harps, clough/ballacolla in the market.. Possibly Rosenallis and Camross too.
Should be interesting
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This is going to come across a bit shitty, but...

It would have been a set back for Laois hurling had The Harps been relegated again instead of Ballinakill.

Too much talent there/coming through to be hurling anywhere but senior.

You'd have to wonder why it isn't translating.

Very close to breaking through in the late 1990s under John Bourke and not too far away under John Taylor in the mid 2010s. But when both teams fell short they fell away badly.

I do think it will take somebody from outside to eventually inspire a breakthrough.
I wonder would Tullaroan direction provide someone!

Fair point. I do know from a few lads out that way that they were crippled with emigration in the last 10 years. Prominent players like Kevin galvin, Sean bourke, 2 delahuntys, ciaran fitz, pakie flynn for example. They seem to lose a lot of players after underage whereas traditionally camross and now C/B are retaining all their underage talent and making them stronger.
But the likes of The Harps, Abbeyleix and Castletown have a great chance over the next few years to be contesting semi finals and finals. The likes of BK and RE are ageing teams with no way near the calibre of underage talent as the aforementioned 3 clubs

3 U15 hurling finals on tomorrow must be nearly the last finals of the year. Best of luck to all clubs involved. Harps and Ctown in the A final in O Moore at 12.30pm 2 good teams harps very strong underage.

In fairness to The Harps they get to a lot if underage finals, surely has to translate to the progression of their senior team in the coming years

I assume the silence means that Maher didn't take it?

Word is that due to a good few prominent players not willing to commit for 2023, maher is not taking it.
We have a few former players with great potential.
Tommy Fitz and seamus dwyer would be a good solid management.  Know the game inside out in laois and would be a huge asset in transitioning young players. Maybe dwyer would bring brian codyvalong with him 🤔

Misinformed. Apologies. 
Great appointment.  Hopefully all the players will make the desired commitment the new management deserves