Its worth noting that the current Minor squad had 12 under 16's on the panel.
During the recent round of matches against Wexford, Carlow and Wicklow only
a limited number of these players were playing for the under 16's. I cant comment on
the other county's but on Saturday all the Wicklow minors were down with their
age group. Laois had 4 subs and Wicklow had 15 sitting in their dug out. Bear in mind
its a development squad but in the recent matches you are not comparing apples
with Apples in results as it has been a depleted squad. The Fr Manning competition
in September will be a true reflection of where that age grading is. The same applies to the
Minor squad , the size and strength of other counties is significantly bigger than Laois but
some of the larger counties have the numbers to have 60-80 players on development squads and then
whittle them down to 30. You also are running two development squads for Hurling and
Football and other counties may not have the same challenges.Most of the other counties
at minor level would be running 15 players age 17 where Laois would have a mixture
of 16 and 17 year olds.
During the recent round of matches against Wexford, Carlow and Wicklow only
a limited number of these players were playing for the under 16's. I cant comment on
the other county's but on Saturday all the Wicklow minors were down with their
age group. Laois had 4 subs and Wicklow had 15 sitting in their dug out. Bear in mind
its a development squad but in the recent matches you are not comparing apples
with Apples in results as it has been a depleted squad. The Fr Manning competition
in September will be a true reflection of where that age grading is. The same applies to the
Minor squad , the size and strength of other counties is significantly bigger than Laois but
some of the larger counties have the numbers to have 60-80 players on development squads and then
whittle them down to 30. You also are running two development squads for Hurling and
Football and other counties may not have the same challenges.Most of the other counties
at minor level would be running 15 players age 17 where Laois would have a mixture
of 16 and 17 year olds.