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A fecking farce.....

The players however will have to accept it use it as if its a normal replay and I suppose if we do win again it will act as great preperation for the clare game ...A match is better than 4/5 trainings aslong as we don't pick up any injury or suspension ...

Just hope the players get up for it and that maybe a few more folk will come along to roar us on ....

It might just get tha gander of the Laois Support up ....

My understanding is the Game is Null and Void so it will be played in Portlaoise again JOL won't be eligible .

Maybe just maybe this will draw a crowd from Laois ...It will have to be fixed soon and hopefully it will be free for all patrons or a cheap price with money going to charity!

I think Monaghan will win this one with a bit to spare!

Can't see it being replayed ...Fine for Laois...slap on the wrist for the Officals ...Who were a disaster all day regarding subs...Laois  claimed one the earlier subs was a blood sub and asked could they replace the Black card which happened in the 71st minute and forth offical said it was okay.....

I hear the GAA have sussed out Armagh and their feelings on the three outcomes...If whats believed to be true and that Armagh are not interested in takin Laois's place or a replay then I expect the third outcome a heavy fine and a slap on the wrist and we move on!

Good to see things have been sorted ...I hear Tom Shield and David Conway have been called in to the squad can anyone confirm this?

Its a pity Paul Kingston is still not knocking around as he can offer something ....Look at his club form since he dropped off the panel he is destroying teams!

Trouble in the Laois camp, can only be good news for Armagh this.

Their star u21 forward "the next Donie Kingston" Evan O'Carroll has fled the nest and gone to the states he was the one who caused all sort of problems in the league winning the penalty and kicking two monster 45s against the wind..

Evan costello and Paul Kingston have also dropped off the panel...With star man John O'Loughlin suspended their forward line will be very short and you'd have to favor Armagh now big time!

Proud of the way they fought in the second half...

It's a pity they didn't start with the structure they finished with.

I was down there it was obivious that Cunningham ran things from the line in the second half...That might tell you all you need to know about where things lie .

Brody Attride, O'connor,Timmons, Meaney,Kingston Munnelly and meredith can be proud of their efforts....

Noteable mentions in the second half to Strong and Donogher ...

Walsh unlucky to be subbed at half time.

So on we go to OUR MA

Jasus next Sat is gonna be mad, if we travel down we'll miss the Ireland game and if we leave extra early for it and try and watch game down there we'll still miss the 2nd half. Armagh and the GAA comes first for me but i'd still like to see Ireland play too. Fecking change it to Sunday afternoon and we can all go down there and have a good night out on the Sat night...spend some of these dodgy euros we printed off

Unreal RTE should just pull the plug on covering the game fix it for 7pm on the Saturday evening...

Let Armagh travel in numbers for the weekend eveyone can watch the matches they want then...

O'Moore Park is a 10 minute walk at least from the nearest pub so if you wanted to get up in comfort to see the warm up national anthem you'll miss the whole second half of the Ireland match....

3.30 on a Saturday is a terrible time for a game regardless of it clashing with other sports as most people work on a Saturday as well...

SHAME ON RTE

Why are RTE showing Laois v Armagh who is going to switch over the Irland game to watch it?

3.30 for a game on a saturday is just a kick in the teeth to any fans let alone that it is clashing with Ireland in the euro's..can't see many if any travelling from Armagh for this ...

Be lucky if there is 1500 at it!

Maybe Laois are getting punished for complaining about the whole Nolan Park fiasco!

Sure Kildare's ground can hardly hold league games it's that bad...Poor location pity for such a county that prides itself in such a big football following!...Portlaoise has nearly been their home for a few years now!

Yeah, I get a great buzz from knowing that the team is already doomed as they haven't done the necessary preparation due to an obviously inept and incompetent management team. Brilliant buzz altogether.

I do think the same you have to be realistic but sometimes coming on here and reading some of the stuff would turn your stomach..

They have a new trainer that came in with Cunningham he is doing it all so I'm told!

Kildare will win this by 5

I see the Nolan Park fiasco is going ahead....Only in the GAA ...A farce!!!

Cunningham is doing more than picking up bibs...From what I hear he is the main man now!

So we got a seven point win spot on the money what the bookies predicted .

hard to make head nor tail of the game.

We started so well with Walsh and O'Carroll looking so dangerous I thought it was going to be a cake walk maybe the players did as well.

We let Wicklow creep back into the game and paid the price for some terrible slack defending (as weak as I've ever seen in the tackle)


Ross and Donie were well of the pace in the first half and this meant a lot of ball being turnover in the full forward line .Kingston didn't look sharp be he was well marked but a sticky full back with plenty of power and height he did however come good.


Wicklow gifted us 1-2 from poor kickouts when we needed it most in the second half and i'd say their goal keeper will be having nightmares about them.

We lost the shape of the team because of all the changes and things looked dis-organised from what I could see.

In the end we just had too much for them as you'd expect and hope..

Negatives -
Our shape when we loose the ball there is no shape this has to be worked on in truth it looked better in the friendly against Kildare than it did last Saturday night(maybe Cunningham not being present on Saturday made a difference)

Our tackling its so easy to get past us on a solo run even O'Loughlin and strong seem to have lost the art of stopping players in the tackle the only one who held up their men Saturday were Quigley a few times and Mark Timmons and Damien O'Connor at times.

Holding on to the ball to long O'Loughlin despite having a decent game was the biggest offender but not the only one.

The delivery if Donie calls for it high then float it up there don't be pinging it in just over head height which allows defenders to get a hand in.

Our fitness didn't look up to much hopefully it can be improved even in three weeks.

POSTIVES

Scoring 3-16 while not really playing that well...3-11 from play.

Gary walsh when he was played close to goal in the first half he looked like a man that would trouble any defense why they moved him out i don't know.

I thought Our Midfield were decent kept the shape there well and both lads worked hard on and off the ball and Kevin Meaney was also a big boost when he came in there.

Keeping calm under pressure when working the ball out from Brody all the way up which was pleasing on the eye.

Not playing well but winning!



The players that did well were
Brody good kickouts one mistake over carrying but it was a tad harsh from the ref.

Attride looks very fit and mobile didn't give his man a sniff.

Timmons such a steady full back when fit he is a great reader of the game

O'Connor seemed to do a bad job on the ankle early but he is a hardy bit of stuff and played a decent match to be fair to him.


Quigley was well matched in the air and Finn of Wicklow is a fine footballer but Brendan done well off the ball played a defensive midfield role and covered for the half back line was steady on the ball as well.

O'Loughlin frustrating at times to watch but he put in a great shift and got on a lot of ball won countless frees

O'Carroll started well but faded unlucky not to get a goal but caused problems all day till he got injured.


Donie was off the pace but turned it on when we needed it his goal was a cracker.

Ruairi O'Connor looked sharp when he came in as did Adam farrell.

Gary Walsh was unlucky to be subbed he should have been left close to goal where he is dangerous.



Look its Dublin next the whole country including our own county men will be writing us off but Dublin are out of Croke park and one of these days have to have and off day maybe just maybe it will be the next day and our lads can show a bit of pride in the shirt go out hit them hard and try everything to get close to them.

Its going to be a unique game with Nolan park packed to the rafters hopefully with a sizable Laois contingent as well the 1000s that will be there from Dublin so for the players it will be something special to be a part of and they hopefully can rise to the occasion.

We are hoping and praying that Lillis and Cunningham can come up with a better defensive plan and improve on fitness and on tackling in the next three weeks.

It doesn't seem like much time but with 12 sessions or more you'd be amazed what can be worked on!