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its a bit early to be talking up Port, won't see the best of portlaoise till later on in the summer.

You're right, but it's encouraging to see someone like Port pushing on in the league. We need our larger urban areas challenging properly. Portlaoise, Port, Mountmellick and Graiguecullen account for a sizeable chunk of Laois' population and should be more prominent.
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mountmellick beat them again in the championship big differents to league and championship.

leinster football is a joke lads, kildare beaten by 19 points they will have to have a open draw soon.

its not just kilkenny, yes there is great work going on in underage in laois, but they need a minor or under 21 leinster win to kick start it, Dublin won the under 21 in was 07 or 08, a few minor titles came then seniors league title and leinster championship title, offaly now have to start at the bottom and work again the 1978 leinster win over laois who let me add had a fine team that time and would walk on to todays side the minors of 1986-89 came the 90's team, and won't be back till some other underage side take a title or two.

kilkenny 2-18 laois 0-11, as like the senior portlaoisekid the likes of laois offaly carlow westmeath are miles behind the big guns laois have beaten offaly the last last 4 years in a row but no one else.

The Wild Cat has gone missing too. Aparantly Offaly had far more than just Dooley.

Anyway, no matter what happens for the rest of the year the step we've been waiting for has happened. We've moved up the ladder. Let's not forget that we haven't beaten any team of note in the championship since the 80's. We used to beat Dublin when they were at the same level as us.
It will be difficult against Galway, all our really good performances have come at home. As I said this win was vital for the progress of the county. Let's hope we see some more excellent performances for the rest of the year.

do you think beating a piss poor offaly side is progress, and then go out and get beaten by 20 points, yes they were far better than offaly on the day, lets not forget laois did lose to Antrim also so this result is no shock, Cheddar has brough this team as far as he can. 

are you mad portlaoisekid its not offaly they are hurling today.

theirs a 2 group in leinster kilkenny,Galway, Dublin, wexford, next group laois, offaly, westmeath, carlow, antrim.  offaly westmeath would have got the same beating yesterday. i have seen laois hurl since the early 80's and them teams were miles ahead of todays side, they beat a poor offaly side well don't get me wrong its not that laois are getting better its just offaly have slipped down to the bottom now, a good offaly team would never lose to laois, 1972-2015 even doe offaly have been very bad this 5 years.  the result in todays minor game will back my point, you have to be beating kilkenny in leinsters in underage if you are to do anything in senior.

I cant help but feel this is a defining moment in our development, it seems like the last 3 years have led to this  game.

A win here would mean the world to Laois and I feel we are well capable of beating them. My worry is us conceding goals and our lack of goal threat. They will attack our full back line with high ball and in Currums and Bergin they have a serious aerial advantage and of course Dooley is top class.

We need to improve and I believe we will, we need to play smart and our distribution from our back line off short puck outs has to be top class or else they will punish us.

I do think we will win , we need this and I believe we can and will win.

my prediction laois 2-21 offaly 3-17
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i don't think there will be much of a goal threat from Dan Currams this is his 6th year and has only got the 1 goal in championship hurling maybe he will prove me wrong on sunday.

if laois think offaly are only Shane Dooley they are in for a land.

Stop Dooley, and you stop this Offaly team. It truly is that simple.
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as i said if laois go out with that in mind they could be in for a shock, by the way that won't be the starting 15 for offaly.

if laois think offaly are only Shane Dooley they are in for a land.

all this Cheddar is back  lets not forget he isn't playing, i think all this will he won't he be back has took the eye off the main thing that is the game, should be a very close game but maybe the laois squad had other thinks on their minds the pass week that could be the differents at the end. or it could go the other way make them a stronger side.

Matthew whelan, jim fitzpatrick and Paddy Whelan have left the panel I hear.

I just feel so sorry the the panel and management team that have worked so hard in such a dedicated fashion to improve themselves and Laois hurling to see such bullsh#t going on before the match they worked towards all year. Typical laois .

Offaly must be rolling around laughing at the thought of the way we are carrying on.

no one in offaly is rolling around laughing at all, we know well laois will give it everything next weekend no matter who's over them.  gone are the days when offaly would beat laois well and there will only be a score in it next week.

is there any truth in that 2 or 3 laois players have threw off the panel.

i agree with  Two Hands, how do they get to play with their county by hurling with their club first. kilkenny hurl club championship games during the summer and it has done them no harm over the last 125 years.

Fantastic by Longford. Always good to beat the BIFFOs.

Too easy for Laois today. Bigger challenges ahead.

i suppose watching offaly win all irelands over the years was hard for a laois man longford and laois have one thing in common they never won Sam