Laois Senior Footballers 2024

[les Antiques]

Experimental team Wednesday night by all accounts.  Interesting to see how McNultys tactics have changed since his last stint with us .

[Butch Cassidy]

Whats the team Les Antiques?

[les Antiques]

LAOIS: Killian Roche (Killeshin); Ben Dempsey (Portlaoise), Seamus Lacey (Ballylinan), Liam Knowles (Stradbally); Sean O'Flynn (Courtwood), Mark Timmons (Graiguecullen), Simon Fingleton (Park-Ratheniska); Kevin Swayne (Portlaoise), Damon Larkin (Portlaoise); Cormac Murphy (St Joseph's), Niall Corbet (Clonaslee-St Manman's), Fionn Holland (O'Dempsey's); Mark Barry (O'Dempsey's), Brian Daly (St Joseph's), Brian Byrne (Graiguecullen)

SUBS: Aaron Cooney (St Joseph's), Micheal Downey (Ballylinan), Jack Lacey (St Joseph's), Dylan Kavanagh (The Heath), Eoin Buggie (Stradbally), Mikey Dempsey (St Joseph's), Ciaran Burke (Crettyard), Danny O'Reilly (Graiguecullen), Paul Kingston (Arles-Killeen), Cathal Doyle (Ballyroan-Abbey), Evan O'Carroll (Crettyard)

[redsetanta]

Any of ye at the game last night?

Any opinions on the new regime?

[les Antiques]

Glorified challenge match. 9 changes at half time. Saying that McNultys style is evident and the organisational level is growing.
Hard to judge the newcomers with so many changes and conditions. 
Quietly optimistic though. 

[The PRO]

Very experimental team v Wicklow today. 6 or 7 debuts.

[Junior Ex Laoistalk]

Any word on the game last night v Clare?

[les Antiques]

 Heard they won . Fiesty affair by all accounts.

[SCFC]

Any word on the game last night v Clare?

Laois won comfortably enough. Team for first league game will probably resemble last night's team with maybe Daly and Rioghan Murphy from the Wicklow game to be in contention too.

[Butch Cassidy]

What was the team?

I feel for the lads playing against Wicklow with no leaders/regulars to help them. Putting the hand up to play for Laois isn't as attractive as it once was and they were always going to get a beating against Wicklow who are a division  3 team on merit with a weakened team out. Then the keyboard warriors have a pop at them too. Strange to have 2 matches on the one day or not mixing up the teams.

[Laois man]

Keyboard warriors who probably never go to a match. Fair play to the lads that played again wicklow if  1 or 2 of them make the panel it's a positive for laois football.

[Junior Ex Laoistalk]

Any word on the game last night v Clare?

Laois won comfortably enough. Team for first league game will probably resemble last night's team with maybe Daly and Rioghan Murphy from the Wicklow game to be in contention too.

Thanks for that SCFC, that's good to hear. Fair play to all who turned out for the Wicklow game, especially the guys who weren't even part of the panel. Anyone who would do that on a cold morning deserves to be complimented..

[SCFC]

What was the team?

Couldn't tell you the exact team but names I heard were involved were Roche in goals, Lacey, Buggie, Ben Dempsey, Swayne, Simon Fingleton, Corbet, Niall Dunne, Damon Larkin, Mark Barry, Lowry. O'Flynn came on at half time.

[les Antiques]

Killian Roche (Killeshin);

Ben Dempsey (Portlaoise), Seamus Lacey (Ballylinan), James Kelly (St Josephs);
Eoin Buggie (Stradbally), Mark Timmons (Graiguecullen), Brian Byrne (Graiguecullen);
Conor Heffernan (Killeshin), Damon Larkin (Portlaoise);
Kevin Swayne (Portlaoise), Niall Dunne (Courtwood), Shaun Fitzpatrick (Ballyroan);
Mark Barry (O'Dempsey's), Evan O'Carroll (Crettyard), Niall Corbet (Clonaslee St Manman's)

[Junior Ex Laoistalk]

Very good win today, that's a good Longford team. Great start for Justin and all the new additions. Ross really getting involved on the sideline, great to see.