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Murphy was smart, Meaney was foolish. Simple as that. Cost us the game.

Loss 3-31 to 1-11. 26pts, well above the average 8.

As good as could be expected. Hope Dwanes injury isn't too bad.

Shameful from Meaney.

http://www.laoistoday.ie/2017/03/02/massive-blow-laois-hurlers-injuries-mount/

Matthew Whelan (broken thumb)
Podge Lawlor (hamstring)
Conor Phelan (cruciate)
Stephen 'Picky' Maher (broken finger) all definitely out

Willie Dunphy (hamstring)
Cha Dwyer (tonsilitis)
Ben Conroy (pneumonia) are all doubtful.

John Lennon has damaged ankle ligaments
PJ Scully gone from the panel following a litany of injury frustrations.


Can we give them a walkover?

[Kevin Bergin from Clonad to Colt]

I imagine Cheddar will force the Ben Conroy transfer through by saying he is living in Portlaoise. Other transfers put forward are: Kevin Bergin from Clonad to Colt, Conor Quinlan from Kyle to B/K,Martin Scully from B/pickas to Abbeyleix, Rob Foyle from Timahoe to B/kill.

That would have been mad! Considering they were playing together as a Gaels team!

Interesting that it was put forward in the first place mind you

Well don we should always try to tell tell the truth on this site and what I have said is the truth within slieve bloom all the players wanted was a chance to play senior hurling and stay with their club I would say to people to try and get the facts before putting pen to paper these are truth from my contact within

"Your contact". Straight away, you're basing everything on second hand information.

Give over will you.

Best of luck to the lads these are the games you want to be playing in as a hurler!

I'm not sure anyone hurler dreams of playing in the wind tunnel that is Salthill in March

as i have said conroy was not the only player that ballinkill wanted they were looking for a complete gaels all players i am told and neutral gerseys they were giving just slieve bloom were afraid of the offer it might spark off a problem with castletown whom i hear now could not care less also i am told that the slieve bloom chairman wanted to contact his county board delegate at the county board meeting to confirm the gaels with ballinakill but he refused to accept his call so whats going on just facts from a very good friend within

Well I'm dizzy after reading that.

i contacted a person from a different club whose son was on it last year.said he made the u16 panel and was let know about three weeks ago?

Well done to his son. A huge honour for the family.

You must be getting nervous?!

. Meanwhile, legend has it that Mick Lillis is still searching for a pitch to train on in Laois.

That is a little bit over snide for my liking. He didn't have the benefit of the Centre of Excellence for his Winter training. And I'd imagine the CB should be the ones finding a training base.

Also, I think some people here need to open their eyes to the fact that I'm sure Creedon wasn't alone in building Tipp football.
The fact is that guys who take on counties like Laois have at the very least a small whiff of "chance your arm journey man" manager.

Hopefully all turns out well. But I'd be fairly confident that Lillis took on the job for the most noble reasons. It didn't work out, but he put his hand up and got the job. He kept his powder dry and stepped aside quietly.
He doesn't deserve to be lampooned.

There's only one poster here who keeps bringing up Lillis. Take a look back.

There's a lot that could be said about last year but it should be left there once and for all. Creedon will be judged on his own merits, but trying to grind some Lillis axe against him is a dangerous game for that poster to play.

Everyone is talking about the players that have to come back. The last couple of years that we have had these lads there was also problems so what next like. A lot of the lads that have to come back are on the wrong side of thirty aswell.

Just because they're the wrong side of 30 doesn't mean they're finished.

Just because they were there the last couple of years, doesn't mean they're bad players. We looked f**king abysmal in '02 against Meath with a lot of players you'd despair about, yet in '03...

Being the wrong side of 30, means they're experienced, and can at least help younger players who are starting out. Instead we have a situation where the likes of Begley, Donie, Strong, Attride and Johnno are trying to do their own jobs, and help others who are struggling to stay afloat. Have you ever been fucked in the deep end in a trial match and tried to make an impact with a load of lads trying to do the same? Our young players may or may not be up to the level yet, but given their less than stellar underage careers, they've little or no hope without a bit of experience or steel alongside them.

All in all, I dont think there was a good game played over the weekend. Every county seemed to struggle. The two week break is usually used for hard slog, and every county seemed to be in that boat. Obviously it doesn't matter a f**k what others are at, but when you see Kerry fail to score from play in the second half at home against Monaghan then you wonder should we ease off a little bit on a team missing so many and blooding so many.

If Creedon is still like this with a full deck, then I'll have an issue, but in respect to everyone who lined out Saturday, there's a few there, that have gotten the handiest Laois jersey in quite a long number of years. That can't be overlooked.

My bigger concern over the weekend is that minor trimming. That is shambolic.

Aside from the deficiencies already mentioned we had our most influential player black carded and conceded an own goal.

That black card was a cunting disgrace.

Laois 0-9 Cork 6-13 in the league earlier today, a bad beating by all accounts

By all accounts?! Did you need another account other than that scoreline? Who's the manager of this again?