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Mueller?

Yes?

Under the current bye laws

Rural to Rural transfers are ok

But rural to urban (Portlaoise being the only designated urban club in the county) are subject to a number of criteria being meet.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

Objection lodged by Park to Joseph's fielding an ineligible player (Garvan)

Don't like this. Chances are they knew beforehand if he was ineligible. Looking at the scoreline, I don't think he was the difference!

Did Joseph's know he was ineligible? Does this mean Kelly was eligible? Was it only Garvan questioned? Unpalatable business when Championship rules are questioned.

i am delighted that daly and conroy were refused dubious transfers. they come from small clubs who have enjoyed recent success and they would be best advised to stay put and help build the brand instead of making an individual fuss to play at a higher level.
I have sympathy with the kyle situation, Laois Gaa should be supporting small border outfits like this one and coming up with a plan to help give them stability or alternatively put in train a process to wind it down and accommodate the players elsewhere. the county board doing nil does not help, granting transfers out of kyle would be death by a thousand cuts.

the transfer of conroy in particular is puzzling. if I am correct, he played senior football in a gaels arrangement with ballyfin last year. why did his club not seek to cement that arrangement by organising a hurling gaels link up? or was senior b not of sufficient standard.
in conversation today with a member of the county executive who sat on the committee hearings last night, conroy was quizzed on his "portlaoise address" and the answers were not satisfactory, the chairman wondered why the player was using his home address for vouched expenses with the county team and supplied a different portlaoise address for the transfer!.

these Daly/Conroy style transfers bring us back to the thorny issue of the policy in this county of properly organising area/gaels teams within the current senior hurling and football championships. certain senior clubs will be against the idea, especially football ones, and unless policy is directed and led by the county board, it will remain a bone of contention.

finally I encountered an officer of slieve bloom in Roscrea last week and asked the question as to why they did no join up with Castletown or Ballyfin(my query). He said the one pre-condition his club presented to castletown for a Gaels join up was that the Gaels team would field in a neutral jersey. castletown would not entertain that proposition and there ended that potential link up. He told me Ballyfin never contacted them about joining up for hurling.  That is what I have been told, true or not.

Re Conroy and Portlaoise, the County Chairman would be better advised to turn his gaze upon the Portlaoise Clubs hand in this and a number of other cases recently. Their behavior is despicable.

Portlaoise poaching another player. The gloves are off in the town. I wonder will they take this one to the DRA. Disappointed in cheddar. For shame.

I'm away from the scene for a few weeks and am wondering if any transfers were granted. I know a few from junior clubs were looking to transfer to senior clubs.

Laois has no transfer by law. No internal transfer can be granted until the fudge by our executive at the co convention is corrected.

Any internal club transfers rumoured yet?

As explained before, there can be NO Laois transfers because of Portlaoise's actions and the rest of the sheep delegates carry on at the co convention. Laois has no transfer bye law, ergo, no transfers.

Nice report on the double cross in this weeks Express

Portlaoise pull a double cross at last nights Convention and get their way for another year of cherry picking of neighboring talent. Transfer by laws, what transfer by laws?

What exactly happened? Can you be more specific? Thanks in advance!

Anyone at the meeting will back this up
* New by law agreed by Clubs in question brought to floor
* Portlaoise claim wording different to what agreed. Others adamant this was what agreed upon.
* Law put to floor
* Remaining clubs in Laois argue they aren't up to speed on what they're voting on, ask for explanation.
* Put to vote without explanation.
* New amendment refused, old broken by law remains in place, loophole still open.

[Have Portlaoise transferred people in?]

That was the risk Bueller. Have Portlaoise transferred people in? My initial point that clubs in the Portlaoise area (Heath Park Clonad and Portlaoise) have rule in place now where transfer within area is automatically rejected.

Helix your doing some amount of ducking and diving on this.

Portlaoise have damn well facilitated the transfer of players into their club,taking a case all the way to the DRA last year over an u16 which cost them over €2k.

Oh and its Portlaoise Parish not area,your mentioning of an Area would imply theres a grey area with regard to residency when there so patently isnt...

And to clarify, it cost Laois GAA, i.e. Our Clubs, 2k. The same clubs whose delegates sat on their hands on Monday night and left the status quo in place for the same thing to happen again now the precedent has been set in the DRA. As things stand, Portlaoise can tap up anyone they like, have it refused, take it to the DRA, have Laois GAA pick up the tab and get their man.

Smart move deleting your post Helix. That's the danger of places like this, fellas post stuff like its gospel and others believing it to be fact.

There's a by law in place in the clubs in the Portlaoise parish that no person can transfer to a club within the Portlaoise parish. Transfer is automatically objected by class clubs.

The same by law that was broken by the DRA a few months ago.

Portlaoise pull a double cross at last nights Convention and get their way for another year of cherry picking of neighboring talent. Transfer by laws, what transfer by laws?

What's Portlaoise underage structure like? Have they much coming through?

It was let slip for a few years,  living off the senior football success. Haven't had much success the past 3/4 years. They have their house in order now,  though it may take a few more years to come to fruition.

House in order? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

If by house in order, they are going poaching smaller clubs players then I guess you're right.

Karma for Portlaoise. Maybe they'll appeal it to the DRA.