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It's better to win a challenge match than lose it but it's ridiculous to read anything into it ..

Great to hear Quigley is back though

I hope to see a fighting fit well organised team with a reactive mgmt team take the field on the 21st .. hope springs eternal

Meaney at centre back  .. suffering jaysus

Beating clare ina challenge means nothing ..

Longford have had a few challenge wins too

We're desperate low on man markers ..  timmons is a huge loss if he dosent make it back this year

Its depressing to see an article like that in the national media ..

Maybe the CB are broke ..
There couldnt have been anymore than 300 at the last home match against Longford
No one is going to support the county fooyballers anymore ..
Its a knockon effect .. team doing badly .. some lads not committing .. very little support .. no money in the coffers ..

We need a 10 year plan .. everything else is band aids

There was 25-30k tipp fans in croker for the semi final last year .. the supporters will come back if the team started to have some success but it took tipp 10 yrears to get there ..

Jaysus Unlaoised would you start Meaney after 2 stupid sending offs that were pivotal in how things panned out in the league
Id much prefer to see buggie or dillon starting and JOL in the middle

Well said blueandwhite

These drinking/socialising bans are a load of bollox.
Professional soccer and rugby players are allowed out for a few drinks regularly.
Otherwise your a f**king prisoner to the game.
I dont really care if lads were or werent drinking at the weekend. Longford is 3 weeks away.
Go out and enjoy yourselves. They make plenty of sacrifices as it is.
Come back and get the heads down for the next three weeks now.
Longford will be a battle. They survived in division 3, we didnt. But if we get most of the injuries sorted we have a good chance.

They are allowed out for a few drinks ffs.. its 3 weeks til the championship
We do not own these players
They are amatuers
Is there any wonder why so many wont commit

We are a division4 team now.. same as Carlow .. these are the facts ..

Saw the highlights on tg4 ..  laois were robbed based on the small bit they showed ..

Penalties awarded and not so were baffling ..

Depressing  if thats true about the players going thru the motions.

No matter what the level of ability in the squad the least they deserve is a  professional setup.

Very disappointing to hear . . .

When some posters were saying that Division 4 would be a disaster they werent joking but to be honest i think we'd be heading that
way in the next couple of years anyways if we had survived

looking at the team from Sunday there are so many over 30+

DStrong
D Booth
P McMahon
K Meaney
D Conway

Subs
Gary Walsh
Niall Donoher

Injured but certain starters if fit
Mark Timmons
B Quigley
C Begley

Thats 10 of the likely best 15 starters that could retire this year or next ..

Then there are players like Dillon and O'Connor in their late twenties, will they commit to Division 4 football?

Players like Donie and JOL who've been carrying us for years .. will they have the appetite for it.

It used to be a huge honour to play for Laois, i dont get that feeling anymore ..

It really is time to stand back and start from scratch .. sometimes you have to hit rock bottom .. and thats where we are ..

I dont know what the story is with the CB or any of that as I'm based in Dublin but there was at most 300 at the longford game
so there could be less than 100 at the matches next year .. surely that has to hit home financially and will force change ?

I don't think we are anywhere near a division2 team anymore .. division 3 is what we should be .. division 4 due to poor mgmt / injuries / illdiscipline

Looking at the bigger picture it's an old team.. half of them in their thirties with very little coming through .. we could be fluttering between division 3 and 4 for the foreseeable.. I expect a raft of retirement after the summer and maybe 1 or 2 before that ..

Hard to see creedon turning it around during the summer .. if he is costing a lot ballyroanabu I can see why u want him gone but I think the bigger picture of the 2003 minors retiring and nothing coming thru as the major problem for laois football in the short to medium term

Despite disjointed performance I think we would have won with 15 .. 4 matches in a row someone sent off ..

Offaly are average but we conceded 3-16 which is staggering. We have no corner backs and booth was poor today ..

We seem unfit all over despite lads returning from injury etc .. we should surely be fitter .. walsh being brought on then off  .. the attempts at tackling all over the field were shocking ..

Donie is a wonderful player but he can't do it all .. jol died with his boots on .. brody is a top keeper .. but we have so many average players

I have defended creedon on here saying give him the league b4 judging him but we were awful today

Division 4 could be the death knell for laois football

I don't know what the answer is .. some lads saying go with Higgins or clancy as manager .. I don't know how much of a difference it would make ..

Sad day .. division 1 to 4 in the years ..

Then again we prob would have won it with 15 men .. how could mean eye get sent off twice in 3 matches .. jaysus Kevin!!

Great post Tony. Thoughout, balanced and factual.

Hope the lads can do it on Sunday. It will be a dogfight. But if our attitude is spot on and Donie and Evan have their shooting boots on i think we'll have to much for them.

I thought we played well in patches last saturday and would have won easily except for stupidity by Evan

Some people are just desperate for Creedon to fail so they can i told you so .. 

Think you got those rating pretty on the money stradism ..

I keep waiting for P Kingston to have an influence on a game but it never seems to happen

Though Booth was good again in defence .. him and timmons would be a good fb line come championship

Buggie played well too .. got a cracking point

Need a bit more movement between donie, evan and conway to keep defenders guessing

If our heads are 100% right we'll beat Offaly .. if they're not we won't