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We had no tradition in minor football in the ninenties but we still were able to win 2 and play in a third final with no clatter of all ireland winners involved at any level it can be done but if it's not led properly from the top like any business it cannot suceed

And now we're languishing in tier 3 and fully deserve to be

What clubs are discouraging their players from representing Laois? Hurling or football or both?

Would you blame them?

Will Dan Shanahan stay on with Laois now that he is part of Ken McGrath's backroom team with the Waterford U20s?

I'm sure he'll stay on, he'll want his 241 car, can't be going around in an old model

The easiest and most basic way to set a team up is to park the bus and stop goals. We don't even have a management team capable of doing that. We were ran ragged also and I believe we have a paid professional in a full time s&c role yet our two senior teams look like two badly conditoned club teams

https://www.laoistoday.ie/2022/11/22/new-look-laois-gaa-jersey-for-2023-season-with-new-sponsor-revealed/

Couldn't agree more regarding our chairman. He references 'ambitious plans' in our sponsorship deal with laois hire, however from what I've heard, it's worse it's getting. Clear out needed from top to bottom. We seem to be a county paying lip service to the GAA.

Context is key here. That same Kerry team that Kilkenny only beat by 6 points? Very easy to throw up results with no context. You mention 15s, a quick scroll through the twitter links you've posted shows that they got to a final? And if things are so bad, what are you doing to affect change aside from slaughter our kids online?

You're doing a great service sharing those results.
The Tipp Games Dev twitter account, for example, didn't but important that you get to make your point.

Convenient how the result of Laois 5-11 to Wexford 1-7 wasn't posted in his reply.

[If both teams lose they will play each other in a shield semifinal]

Both Laois u14 teams in the Sonny Buckley this Saturday in Waterford which is the u14 B all ireland competition

Laois 1 play Wexford 2

Laois 2 play Tipperary 2


In the quarter finals

If both teams lose they will play each other in a shield semifinal

Pure madness. Who organises this rubbish? There's no way any county should have two teams in the same competition.

Are you actually blaming the organisers for where Laois find themselves ?

You do know how laois found themselves having 2 teams in the B competition?

Maybe if Laois were serious about their u14 players,(see my previous post as to the utter shambles it's been this year)the first team wouldn't be in the B competition,and they would be the same as every other county

[ftp=ftp://Are you actually blaming the organisers for where Laois find themselves ?]Are you actually blaming the organisers for where Laois find themselves ?[/ftp]

No. The situation we are in is all down to ourselves. I am however blaming them for putting a structure on a competition that allows two teams for the same county to meet in a national semi final. What was wrong with the old system where the A teams played in the Tony Forristal and the B teams plus some weaker counties played in the Sonny Walsh. A much better and more straightforward system.

You do know how laois found themselves having 2 teams in the B competition?[/b]]

Yes, but that in itself shows the ridiculous structure of the competition.

[ftp=ftp://[ftp=ftp://Maybe if Laois were serious about their u14 players,(see my previous post as to the utter shambles it's been this year)the first team wouldn't be in the B competition,and they would be the same as every other county][ftp]

100% correct. God be with the days when we were doing well in the Forristal, competing with and beating the top counties. We can't even get into it now. Shambolic.

The laois A team found themselves in the B competition because they were the worst team in the qualifying section

That's how they found themselves down there

I presume we'd preferred if those kids got the shite kicked out of them in the A competition

At least then we could fool ourselves that we had a team in the A competition and everything was great

As for the god be with the days comment

In its 40 odd years of existence 

We have never won it

And I think Laois got to a semifinal just the once although I'm open to correction

A lot of the time we have been cannon fodder

So you can take off the rose tinted glasses there too

I've been following this thread for a while now without an account, however curiosity got the better of me. I have a son in squads, and you seem to have more information about the squads than we as parents do. So with that, are you a parent? Coach with the squads? County board executive? Full time employee? From talking to our own coaching officer the extent of the detail you have on squads fixtures etc is much more than is circulated to clubs and parents so if you could direct me towards where this information is shared please that would be great?