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What's the odds of a re-match in the final? Quite short, I'd say!

If Westmeath turn Offaly over next weekend, their season is effectively over.

Oh that was one sweet win. Tom Cuddy hurled some game. Paddy Purcell deserves the freedom of Laois. Rowland was immense. Dooley came good in the second half as did Shanahan. A brilliant start to championship hurling 2024. Kerry beating Westmeath opens up the group. We should beat Meath and Down so we'd just need a win over either Westmeath or Kerry to make the final now.

For @Mossy Bruce over on the west coast USA, you can watch the match live on clubber.tv for €12 / $13. They also have an annual pass for €149 which is great value as alot of club matches are shown also.

One week to go until the hurlers kick off their 2024 campaign against Offaly. We really need to lay down a marker here and win this to have any strong hopes of making the JMD Final.

On another note, how long is the JMD competition running now? Since 2018? Still no competition sponsors. Shame on the GAA top brass.

If they approach that game with the same focus they are more than capable of winning. 

The Offaly game will be a tough encounter - we will need complete focus for 70 minutes, on Sunday we went out of the game for stretches of the first half, so we need to address that. Championship will be a different animal - Carlow could have had a few goals on Sunday only for the brilliant stops by Rowland. Our defence needs more work - as Offaly's main threat is their full-forward line. I anticipate a high-scoring game on April 21st.

YouTube Channel

Meaning TG4 is streaming it only via Youtube or they are streaming on Youtube in addition to the TG4 website?

This link is waiting for you Mossy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17vFvFmbdH4
It will be live at 3pm on Easter Sunday Irish time, so subtract those Oregon hours which I think will be an 8hr difference as we move to Summer Time tonight. That's at least a 7am start for you chief! Hopefully we do it and make that early rise well worth it!!!

Yeah, it's a bit messy bringing in head-to-head results for this. One question though, how did we get Portlaoise as the semi-final venue? Surely we should have to travel to Down considering they played us in Portlaoise already, or failing that a neutral venue for the Semi?

Hearing of discontent within the squad. Some hearsay around the county that Mahers new addition to the management team walked from the setup in the last few weeks.
Any truth to this?

All good in the camp . Situation being overblown. 

Hope so, the last thing we need now is behind the scenes distractions. We really need to win JMD this year, otherwise Offaly will be overtaking us again.

Did we sack our Hurling coach?

What's all this about then? Is there backroom unrest, why?

Carlow on Saturday evening, February 24th will be a stern test. At least we have them in Portlaoise. They have scored 3-22 in each of their two wins to date, conceding 19pts in each tie also. That's a winning margin of 12pts per game. Laois have won on average by 7.5pts in our opening two games. So, we really need a strong performance when compared to what we've put in so far in the opening two games.

I just saw the results for the Down v. Kerry match. What the hell.

Very surprising. Thats two losses now by Kerry and they're rooted to the bottom of the table.

Laois 2-18 V 0-17 Down.
Thought alot of Laois' play was lethargic and only when Down drew level with around 12 minutes left did we step up a gear and push on. Ryan Mullaney and Martin Phelan both especially off the boil today. Cody Comerford was quite lively when he came on. The wind was a big factor today and thankfully it drifted a fair few of Down's efforts wide. Wouldn't be overly enthused with what I saw in OMP today. Referee was handing out reds far too easily as there wasn't much niggling in the game really. Kildare away won't be a cakewalk looking back on today's performance.

Good result on the scoreboard.
Laois 2-18 v 0-18 Offaly.

The Harps and Abbeyleix served up some minor final today, eleven goals really gave great entertainment. Can see these two squads dominating for a few years yet.
It wasn't to be Abbeyleix's day and kinda bit deflating for them to lose both games by margins of 12pts and 16pts.
Thought Camross were very commanding in the senior final and the hooking, harrying and passing from them was clinical. I thought that they fine weather would have suited Abbeyleix more but the first touch, wasted wides and wayward passing killed their ambitions.
Whilst disappointed today one would hope that the Abbeyleix squad will want to go harder next year and get back into the final to redeem themselves. Abbeyleix have a window of a few years to grab a title as the top teams are regressing and the younger teams are progressing.