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I'll defo go to the football .. undecided on the hurling ..

I suppose the footballers have a 50/50 chance if they perform for 70 minutes.

The hurlers seem decimated by injuries. A hiding wouldn't be good for such a young team but looks likely ..

Thats some post laoisguy . Can you expand on it a little ..

How did Timmons play lads?

The one encouraging thing is that no one dropped out after the kildare hiding ..

Respect to the lads for that !!

Would still like to see Dillon in the team for his pace .. team is crying out for that ..

I think the general concensus here is that we are a shambles from the top down.

I live in dublin. I dont have a butchers whats going on at juvenile or club level or with the county board.

I just rock up to the home league games and the championship games so i cant offer any solutions ..

This is the lowest point in the 25 years i've been following Laois Teams.

I think we are a bit better than last Sunday. Tactically we seem clueless. Playing as individuals. Forgetting about talent or lack of it
this isnt a team in the real sense from what i can see. Its a bunch of individuals. WE were within a kick of a ball of making the QF last
year so i think we are over doing the lack of talent thing. There is some talent in that squad. It was like boys against men last week.
Physically we couldnt compete. Whose fault is that? We should be a bit better than Sunday. We are 6/7 point behind kildare not 14 . . .
I accept we are fooked when 5 or 6 of our main lads retire in a few weeks time as there is little or nothing coming through.

Accepting we are bolloxed .. can those in the know at grass root level offer a way forward ..

Give me some hope ..

Thats twice in tullamore in a month we looked clueless.
Obviously this is much bigger than Creedon and i wanted to give him time but
we were a shambles. I just dont see any tactics. I dont see any movement in the forwards.
Horse it into Donie and hope for the best.

I remember someone saying a couple of years ago we're heading the way of offaly.
We've past them .. carlow would fancy their chances now ..

Maybe Creedon is a good underage coach not a county manager and thats where all the focus has to be for the next 5 or 6 years ..

I suppose the hidings they have been given us at underage are now happening at senior.

They were so much physically stronger than us. Stripping the ball from us at will.
They seemed to have pace all over the field .
They played like a team.
We played like individuals AGAIN.

I know playing wise we're limited but this was a dreadful mgmt performance. They waltzed the the middle and popped over points from the 40 aided by the wind. Mgmt bring on Doran? He got turned over the first 3 times he got the ball. Surely Dillon could have been brought on .. a bit of fooking pace ..
Actually got worse in 2nd half ..  continued with a sweeper .. hail Mary's into donie or Paul..

Only bit of crack all afternoon was Brody losing the ball.

Hard to know how good kildare are are but we made them look like world beaters..

Dark day for laois football .. hard to have any optimism for the future ..

Conway has to be injured Tony, he was excellent in the league. No other logical explanation.

Its not a bad laois team but booth lack of pace is a huge worry and will be targeted. Kelly to start FF.

If we can keep it tight in the first half and dont concede any stupid goals we have a chance.

A wet pitch could add to the mix.

Hoping for a decent vocal laois support .. it makes a difference ..

***2105 TEAM and SUBS v Kildare***
Laois: G Brody; S Attride, M Timmons, C Begley; R Kehoe, D Strong (0-02), D O'Connor; B Quigley, J O'Loughlin (0-02); N Donoher, C Boyle, E O'Carroll; R Munnelly (0-03, 0-03f), D Kingston (0-08, 0-05f), T Shiel (0-01, 0-01f).
Subs: C Meredith for Shiel (51 mins), B Sheehan for Meredith (64), P Kingston for O'Carroll (67) 

***2107 TEAM and SUBS v Longford***
Laois: G Brody; D Strong (0-1), D Booth, D O'Connor; E Buggie (0-1), S Attride, P McMahon (0-1); B Quigley (0-1), C Begley (0-1); A Farrell (1-0), J O'Loughlin (0-3), N Donoher (0-1); E O'Carroll (0-1), D Kingston (1-4, 0-3 frees), P Kingston (2-1).
Subs: J Kelly for O'Connor (32), G Dillon for Attride (58), J Finn for D Kingston (68), R Munnelly for O'Carroll (70), K Meaney for Donoher (70+3), S Moore for O'Loughlin (70+3).

5 changes from starting line up .. dont think either team is stronger really .. timmons is the huge loss. The 2015 team drew then got well beaten ..

I think Kildare at -2 is a great bet if i look at it coldly, i expect a 5/6 point win for Kildare.
Hope attride is fit .. Dont know who will mark Niall Kelly .. Booth wouldnt have the pace .. maybe mcmahon?
WE have a chance but defensively its just hard to see us keeping it tight enough 

OMP must hold around 25k. They only change they made was to put in better supports on the terrace. They do have a section taped off around the middle for cameras which i presume is temporary until they build a proper structure which probably reduces it by 1k ..
IF O' Connor Park Tullamore holds 18k OMP mush be 25k. Although it will be a masacre it will be great to see our superb stadium 2/3 full ..

Very good display on Sunday. We are strong from the half back line up. I liked the way we pressed high up ..
Was a killer to see Timmons on the bench. I dont even know if he was on the subs list?
Booth did OK but cant mark a speedy forward. O'Connor off the pace. Thought Strong did quite well. Tackled well. Young Kelly did ok too, his best game for Laois since his debut. I presume he'll start the next day for attride? Or maybe mcmahon drop back and Dillon comes into the half back line.
Buggie had a good debut.

We were good around the middle. Begley and Quigley were immense. Johnno did his stuff as he always does

Loved the way when there was a goal chances on we went for it ..

Donie is the ultimate target man being able to kick off both feet, win 40/60 balls, sell dummies and draw players too him before laying it off to the man in space. Great to see Paul step up at last. His first goal was superb.

Evan did ok but is clearly still not match fit. Does cause chaos when he runs at full tilt.

I thought Brody kick outs were frustrating. Quigley would make a run but he would hesitate and land it down on top of johhno instead who would
usually miss it. With the mark, the quigley option must be used more.

How do we beat Kildare?
We will concede 1-17 ish so i guess we need another glut of goals..

Pleased for the players and Creedon. We can only be as good as the talent we have available.
Thanks all i can ask for as a supporter .. I felt we came near that on Sunday ..

Your obviously privy to some insider info town1980 .. i hope your wrong ..

If the camp isnt unified they'll get done tomorrow

Good interview with Johnno .. seems to speak genuinely highly of Creedon ..

I hope dillon and farrell start .. the team is crying out for some pace

I definitely wouldnt be starting meaney after his league indiscipline but could be a good impact sub

Conway would be a big loss

Ive really no idea what to expect but as it could be the last year for a few of them id be hoping theyll go
out all guns blazing.. we were definitely the better team in the league clash

Is it possible to see the lads training ?

Are the sessions not closed off ?

Surely conway is still involved .. after donie he was our best player in the league