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 Now that TOF is gone , we as supporters have to ask ourselves who would want this job.

It seems to me the norm for a manager in this county is :

1) Abuse from supporters about style tactic etc.

2) Lack of respect from players

3) Not having access to the best players.

4) Even media getting in on the abuse.

I'm not saying TOF was above criticism and I was the first to be critical over the past two weeks especially over tactics and fitness. His time was up but the personal abuse that he seems to be getting from social media and internet isnt on.

Take our previous manager Justin McNulty .  During his time all he got was:

1) Abuse from supporters about style tactics etc.

2) Lack of respect from players

3) Not having access to the best players.

4) Even media getting in on the abuse.

During his time , we contested an all-ireland 1/4 and went out to years in a row to the previous all-ireland champions , we were one of the fittest teams in Ireland, had a professional set-up with stats men, a brill s+C coach in barry solan, yet people weren't happy. Will this be any different in two years time?? This leads me to the question: What do we  want?  I for one would rather my county kicking football into late july/august rather than been out by the third saturday in June.

There seems to be alarm at our lack of underage success which is true however if our senior football team hasn't go the backing off everyone in laois (fans, potential players, county board, professional set -up) all the talent and underage success in the world won't do.

Speaking of crowd.

Forget about getting a crowd to Galway. The county board need to make a serious effort to get a crowd to the Kildare game. Most of the football clubs border Kildare and with a bit of effort and promotion we should be able to muster a crowd.

Great 2nd half. If only they could do it for seventy mins.

Thought Ross was poor and maybe he should have been replaced.

Backs did really well in 2nd half and damian o connor did very well when he came on. Hope Hanrahan's injury isnt too bad.

A couple of things. We need a crowd to travel to Galway the next day. This team is showing tremendous heart and spirit and thats all we look for as supporters! We cant always say that about past Laois teams.

Felt sorry for Dillion been taken off so soon but hopefully he will take it on the chin and improve from this.

Hey,

Was one of the few who made it sunday. It felt like an away game, The silence when we got our second goal was a joke. The county board have to promote the home games more. How can Roscommon bring a couple of thousand to portlaoise.

Sunday proved that Roscommon are very overated and it showed that we have good talent in our panel especially our forwards. Our forwards seemed more natural than there's and found it easier to get a score.

Paul kingston did well but i felt he was nervous and fumbelled the ball a good bit, however you cant complain with 1-2 and hopefully this will bring him on.

Dillon and boyle did ok and like the younger kingston I feel that dillion has alot to offer and at once stage in first half he burned his marker to show us the pace that he has. I think he kick a point as a resut.

While we keep saying that we a lacking in defenders what sunday also showed us that in modern football if your team is set up well this can rectify the problem.

All in all a good day for Laois and a good day for those of us who follow Laois on the bad days as well as the good days!

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