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Goon win for Abbeyleix Gaels at the weekend in the minor hurling replay. Also great to see a Wolfhill man playing his part, being 1 of 3 Ballypickas players on the team.

The only personel that Banty would motivate is the CB so he can get his expenses cheque.

Shows how difficult it is to win back to back championships in Laois at the moment. I just hope that whoever wins they will acquit themselves in Leinster.

Jaysus thats a very heavy defeat for Graigue. Balyroan Abu you had that right. Takes a bir of gloss away from Ballylinan. What is happening down in Graigue?  They have some fine footballers there.

Give Kilcruise credit though, that was a serious result considering where they were at half time without Ross. A huge win for them tonight. Never wilted and kept coming at Josephs who were very fearful of them. You can never write them off despite the miles on the clock of some of the players. Brilliant performance and well deserved.

I wouldn't have a problem with John Evans who did well in both Tipp and Roscommon. Ryan shot his bolt with Kildare in my opinion and as for the likes of PAul Curran you are as well giving the job to a Laois man if that's the height of your ambitions!

Great win for Ballinakill tonight. Cha must be doing his thing!

Anyone at the BAllinakill v BK game. Was a draw a fair result or could/should one of them have won it?

Decent result for Ballinakill.

Portlaoise and the Harps also drawing. 

And under the current system every team is guaranteed 3 competitive championship games. With the finalists, top and bottom, getting 4. For years there were plenty of dead rubbers which did nothing for the weaker teams.

Everyone having a good old rant here. It's an East Leinster projest. Are we classed as East Leinster? Maybe there's a Midlands initiative coming down the line. Offaly, Carlow. Longford etc will be feeling the same way about this.

On another note how is the funding going for hurling that the GAA promised a couple of years back?

Can't see Killeen doing much against Portlaoise next day out. How they are being touted as potential county champs is beyond me. Next round of games have a couple of tasty encounters.
Hard to know what way the big defeat will affect The Heath. Graigue should get back into the reckoning, Emo and Killeshin to win the other games.
Crettyard will look forward to playing Strad after a good win and the Josephs v Kilcruise encounter should be one of the ties of the round.
The battle of the Bally's could go either way!

Yes but they make the quarter finals and they've been in a couple of semi finals. No consistancy with with Ballylinan. They usually only have the one big game. Maybe they're improved this year but how many of the top teams have they beaten over the last 10 years?

They've consistantly been a better team than Ballylinan. They couldn't get the better of Kilcruise  over the last few years when they played them but would be a step up from Ballylinan.
Ballylinan have won first round games before maybe upsetting the odds but didn't build on it.

You can't take too much from 1st round games. Teams who win can forget about the fear of relegation which means there mightn't be the same level of intesity the next day. The best games to see are the second round losers matches as lose that and you're in trouble.

If Graigue and Ballylinan meet at the knock out stage my money would be on Graigue!

Chris is still kicking club football so I doubt it's something he'd be interested in right now. Maybe in a few years but would be better in my opinion if he got the reigns with one of the underage groups and worked his way up.