Quote from: BallyroanAbu on April 05, 2017, 11:03:42 AMpeople should be careful what the wish for,the town is still there,every now and then clubs get a purple patch, and think the town in bother.If your evolved long enough you will find out this.Ballyroan you seem very got up in your recent success at under age and fair play to yourselves and abbey leix for the work ye put in, it has to be commended,but not to long ago Jim whelan was asking the county board could the u16 champ. be 13 aside because they had not enough players, as well as giving walk overs at minor level.FOR the record when George doyle was minor manger there was 10 portlaoise lads in the squad,unprecedented by laois standards.
This all revolves around Portlaoise, I seen a Laois Today Picture from 2009 when they won the Feile. Correct me if I am wrong not one of them is a starting player on the Portlaoise Senior Team now. BallyroanAbbey and St Paul's are the dominant clubs at underage as of last year. I suppose the financial pressure Portlaoise were under has forced them to take their eye off the ball. A few years back George Doyle was managing the minors I asked someone on it how many from Portlaoise are on it and he said none, I swear I nearly fell over. How could anyone expect to do anything at juvenile in this county without Portlaoise. Regardless of what other clubs think Portlaoise has to get more support, it's where the vast majority of our population live
Actually Portarlington, Graigue & Mountmellick should be thrown in
These Clubs need serious help
The Rural Clubs could do with improvements but however bad their situation is the town clubs are in serious bother.