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Some commitment by all. Hope it pays off now for them.

This weeks Fixtures, anyone fancy to call:

Thursday: Crettyard v Mountmellick
Friday: Arles-Killeen V Graigue
Saturday: Josephs V Emo
                 Ballylinan V Ballyfin
                 Stradbally V O'Dempseys
                 Portlaoise V Crettyard/Mountmellick
                 The Heath V Arles Kilcruise
     

I am going with
Cretty
Kileen
Josephs
Ballylinan
O'ds
Port
Arles-k

We need to hang on to cheddar, get him some more assistance and try a get a little of that killer instinct, we need goals from somewhere next year, they really make a diference. A lot of good comments in last few posts

 the team for today

Laois: Reilly; Palmer, Healy, Stapleton; Joe Fitz. M Whelan, Delaney; Purcell, P Whelan; Dwyer. Tommy Fitz, Keenan; Picky, Hyland. JCampion.


good luck to the lads,

Martin Mchugh?? He managed Cavan to ulster title in 1997, thats a world away from the level needed to compete in todays game to be fair. He turned down his own county also so would hardly take up a county like ourselves anyway. Also with regards to the underage setup, being successful is not what it is all about, as Dapper Dan said being competitive is whats important, each year a minor team should produce 2/3 players good enough to be top senior level players.

If they win trophies at underage level fine but not the end of the world, Ross Munnelly was hardly on successful underage teams yet he is one of the best senior players we ever produced. Also look at the Westmeath team that took Meath apart in the second half at the weekend, they have hardly being uprooting trees at underage recently yet they had plenty of youthful talent on the pitch who were well coached and unlike Laois this year did not fall apart when all looked lost. I think our panel (even without absentees this year) is every bit as good if not better than Westmeaths yet they are on a high looking forward to a Leinster final while we must enjoy our armchairs and high stools for the rest of the summer

Wouldn't agree with you there Joey re the underage,we know we can win at underage because we have done it.
The likelihood is we won't do it at senior level because we don't have the resources (finance,jobs to keep 30 odd players local ) even if we had the players.
So why not concentrate on underage indefinitely and see where that takes us.

Interesting thought there OTF

O Neills site currently selling some Laois gear at very reasonable rates. A lot cheaper than Colgans!

https://www.oneills.com/sale/gaa-sale.html#/sale/gaa-sale.html?p=5

Note that oneill overseas cannot sell the laois kit with three stripes check out site first to ensure they are not different. This happened when I tried to but somthing based in London.

Also try lifestyle sports

Both laois and Dublin got hammered by a good Galway team. Recken Kilkenny v Galway will be some encou ter. Nevertheless think laois still have an opportunity against Dublin. Think sweeper will be kept but as some have said we need to be adaptable as the games progresses if we do and we let forwards be forwards we may achieve something

Wow some posts but bottom line a terrible result against Antrim. Definitely a slippery slope. It seems. And woild like tosay Ross has been a great player for the county.
Surely if we can find laois management it is worth a shot. Although Ayers need to want to give all for the shirt too. Management can only do so much

What a result what a result first win over offaly since 1972 I believe super hurling

1-3 point win in each game for Laois

Great news cheddar and team back.  Now hopefully we get it together to neat offaly