The future of laois hurling

[clonadmad]

Laois u14s are running trials for the past 6 weeks and there's no management in place to oversee it

The football at the same age grade had their management in place before they even started their trials around the same time

If there's no management in place who is running the trials.

What's the story? Are they struggling to get people involved?
The Games Manager and GDA's

No one wants to take it


A good few have been asked and declined

[Zooming around]

Laois u14s are running trials for the past 6 weeks and there's no management in place to oversee it

The football at the same age grade had their management in place before they even started their trials around the same time

If there's no management in place who is running the trials.

What's the story? Are they struggling to get people involved?
The Games Manager and GDA's

No one wants to take it


A good few have been asked and declined

How would one put their name forward?

[Laois man]

How many clubs make up Na Fianna in the minor hurling?

[clonadmad]

How many clubs make up Na Fianna in the minor hurling?

Na Fianna (Ballyfin, Clonaslee St Manmans, Mountmellick & Slieve Bloom)

[Laois man]

Crazy from Ctown to near Kinnitty and back near portarlington some area for one team🤔

[burdizzo]

Heard chat that Slieve Bloom are gone back w/ Castletown, so not w/ Na Fianna any more.

[Laois man]

Castletown are by themselves.

[Robbo]

Good to see Kevin byrne fit and starting for the Minors. One of the best underage prospects we have.

Big task against a strong Offaly team but I think we're more than decent.

[Robbo]

U15 Feile held this weekend.
Castletown win A after claiming B last year. Beat ballacolla in final , between them, rathdowney and harps to make up top 4. Very little between those 3 bit this is a good Castletown team. Well coached.
Park and portlaoise aboth competitive too; PRT have a lot of good lads srill underagenext year. Good to see Port and mountrath at A level too. Some strong individuals.
Always good for lapis when ctown produce good underage teams and this one is very.
Camross won B beating borris/k. Decent enough competition for B standard.

There is a problem thoigh, and a problem of clubs making not county board but we now have 6 weeks of championship with some potentially woeful one-sided matches.

Ctown in a group with 2 teams from B Feile; one conceded matches, other didn't make a semi.
Harps same. bcolla in with all B teams.
One group will be competitive between 1st/2nd and again 3rd/4th bit big gap them between those pairs.
I predict lots of matches conceded. Has happened already in one group.

This isn't going to help anyone.

And it's result of too many clubs trying to hurl in B over the years. Or amalgamated clubs being graded B and whipping smaller clubs on their own. (And my own club guilty too.)
So I don't blame Co board on this one.

But could the groups have been formed after feile?
There is obviously a clear A/B.

Throwing them all together looks "fair" on paper as they'll all end up at their level but 6 weeks in May/june wasted with hammerings and lads losing interest.

[Laois man]

Was at feile games yesterday Castletown looked very good and there skill level was very high especially some of there forwards. Great to see a very big crowd there. Q. are the feile weekends for the winning teams gone? Was hearing yesterday its just a day out in Thurles now for the winners.

[burdizzo]

I was under the impression that was just last year because of Covid, but I could be wrong...

[clonadmad]

Was at feile games yesterday Castletown looked very good and there skill level was very high especially some of there forwards. Great to see a very big crowd there. Q. are the feile weekends for the winning teams gone? Was hearing yesterday its just a day out in Thurles now for the winners.

Feile Weekends were scrapped in 2019

A retrograde step

[blueandwhite1]

That was a very disappointing result last night, especially given how well we had played in the first half. Wexford weren't up to much really but upped their intensity after the break and we didn't match it. Some good performances but unfortunately just couldn't convert enough of our chances and barely made a goal chance to speak of for whatever reason. Not being hard on the lads, these things can happen in a game, but just felt we should have gotten the win their talent and hard work deserved. Between this and last Sunday we could really be riding the crest of a wave this morning. Instead we're again looking at what might have beens. The hurlers across Minor, U20 and Senior have no interest in what might have beens.

Tend to agree. Last night in particular was very winnable. Two missed frees in last few minutes and lost by a point.

However, if I was Wexford I would be much happier for the future. A lot of the basic skills and first touch was in abundance on the Wexford team but was absent for many of the Laois players. We got turned over maybe 100 times in the match because we dropped the ball or couldn't rise it after multiple bites at the cherry. Top counties don't seem to have this disease. Don't want to be too negative as there was plenty of strong displays and a few future Laois hurlers on view but we need to have higher standards on the basics.

[SpeculativeEffort]

Really thought these were quite even teams. Wex had one or two lively forwards who could get away a little easier for a score.

We must remember Fionan O'Mahony didnt play and Mossy Keyes played an injury curtailed 25 mins. They are 2 of our best.

The last two balls we were pulled down cynically for one and one more pass might have created a goal chance on the last. Cant help feeling we need the bit of divilment, a bit of lets scalp these, a bit of lets tear up the history books in our ranks. We took a point when two down. Almost saying a 1 pt defeat is better than 2.

[Laois man]

Super win for our minor hurlers today again wexford. But we nearly thrown it away. 12 mins left up by 7 wexford down to 14 men and we go with 2 sweepers instead of pushing on and trying to win it by 10.Thank God we got that late goal and we deserve to win.