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Have to agree with Mountrath on this one. Irespective of the opposition, Laois looked like a team that hadnt played together. Poor basic skills and totally  illprepared for the game in my view.
I know the local media bought into the " battling' Laois minors crap last year and the year before when they were poor (and average when beaten by wexford). I appreciate it has been a difficult year but it was the same for Galway. This  is an awful follow up  to the minors with Coolderry sandwiched in between. I would argue that the u20 appointment is almost as crucial as the senior job. We must get this right to give the lads some chance.

Plenty of names mentioned there. This forum could be useful for the selection committee to review. Plenty of reasons suggedted why people wouldn't come but there are reasons why the job might interest people too!
Just one other point how many managers do Bennettsbridge have? Yesterday it was Sheflin and today Willie Maher is over them.....

Incorrect, Eamonn Kelly managed Boherlahan to Tipp Junior title a few months after leaving Laois. Then went to Judes in Dublin.
Why not go for Sheflin or Herity. You'd never know. Arien Delaney was the front runner last time and no one even mentioned Brennan. Could be the same this time!

It is disappointing but people shouldn't be too despondent. There are good up and coming managers in the club game and inter county that could step up. Just a few off the top of my head...Henry Sheflin, Kevin Lally, David Herity.
I hope all that went on won't put people off coming to Laois if it is an outsider.

The next appointment is crucial if Laois want to build on last year's progress. Need a young hungry manager. They don't grow on trees but they are there!

Some good points made by Gio & LR there. It is hard to know what way that meeting will go. If it is a review (looking beyond the podcast interview) then EB needs to be challenged on 1) his continuous media & social media engagement (which in many respects has caught up with him), 2) performance of the team in championship, (awful v Dublin in both halves, played for one half v Clare when a weakened Clare were down to 14 men) 3) why certain players will not commit to a Laois Hurling Team under him 4) combined plan to improve things in 2021. If its just about the interview and the content, then it is a missed opportunity.

I hope EB is retained because he has helped improve things - Joe McDonagh performances were much better last year and league form in 2020 was an improvement on 2019. The team has an identity and shows some really good qualities. But he needs to be challenged too to help drive the standards that will help build momentum from the senior team down.

There will be more scrutiny on the meeting (and the statements thereafter) because of the podcast interview. To be honest I'm not sure there would have even been a review if it weren't for that. My gut is telling me that he won't be Manager much longer and both he and Corcoran will have plenty of suitors.

My sense is that most of the posters on here have a very real clue of what is possible in today's world. Do you genuinely believe that 'Teneo' fell onto the laps of the Tipp County Board, or in counties as small as Laois - 'Abbvie' in Sligo or 'Investec' in Monaghan??. County Boards have worked for these and asked ex-pats/senior personnel in corporations to get involved. You only need one or perhaps two (in a dual county like Laois) to supplement what Matty Walsh has been doing. It is absolutely realistic !!

Have to agree with Finbar above and indeed with most of what Eddie Brennan has said in the 'interview'. Its tough operating in a small backroom team when you have to fight (and ask) for every little thing you need. Having said that, you have to have some respect for those that employed you and it is clear that that is not there in this case. There is a potential solution in the short-term by having an additional liaison officer operating between the backroom team and the CB but that will only paper over the cracks. The real issue is that the ambitions of the current management don't align with those of the county board for hurling. (And of course there is the related issue of an uneven playing field when it comes to resources). It pretty much seems to be the same reason why John Sugrue and Cheddar left similar positions in the past: short-termism, no plan, no ambition

I know EB has many fans here, (especially in the local media) and throughout Laois but he needs to be challenged too - why has he continued with punditry, continuous media, social media etc etc throughout his term as manager of Laois? (none of the other managers except Davy Fitz do as much as him). Why won't so many of the players commit to a Laois hurling team under him ? Why were Laois so so bad two weeks ago versus Dublin? People have short memories. I'm not sure the CB (primarily those named in the interview) have the ability or stomach to challenge him constructively for the betterment of Laois hurling.

The upshot is that he will leave either now (if things can't be patched up) or next year, most likely for Dublin (given Corcoran's connections), or potentially for Wexford, where resources are not an issue. Laois will remain in and around the tallest of the dwarfs.

Laois were poor last night. Second best in every facet of the game. Absentees aside, their hurling was slower, skills not as crisp, behind on conditioning and to me they never really had a go, which is very un-laois like for this bunch. Defintely a case of two steps forward last year and a step back this year.

Ballinakill and Borris/Kilcotton have brilliant management teams.

Not fully up to date with all those names listed, just wondering what have those management teams won?

Where have you been for the last 24 hours?! There's no relegation from Joe McDonagh this year. And, yes - Kilkenny without their Ballyhale players.
Laois without players but it was more or less a KK second string....yes without Joey Holden, TJ Reid, Colin Fennelly Adrian Mullen from Ballyhale but also Cillian Buckley, Eoin Murphy, Conor Fogarty, Richie Hogan, John Donnelly, Paddy Deegan.