Messages

Was told recently that the only reason spink are still fielding teams at adult level was because they have an exceptional few underage teams coming through, as for us im not suprised we have the highest representation considering the sheer domination we had at u14 last year

Majority of counties have these competitions in some way, you dont have to enter it if you dont wish to, at least this year the gales teams are there to provide something new, if it wasnt kelly/palmer cup it be practice matches or more training

Look its happened now they were screwed over a few years ago when they tried to form a team with park and courtwood so let them have their oppurtunity
Anyway i heard that from next year only gales teams with some sort of  link (juvenile, parish, etc) will be accepted from next year

Intermediate and junior should also be restructured to accomodate these changes to make their championship more competitive. Firstly to avoid players playing eeach weekend for divisional and junior/intermediate teams play off junior c/ship between mid may and finish in july again same format as above in groups all teams play the same weekend  sunny weather good football. Thats 10 weeks to play 6 games max. Players that are out then have all august to go on holidays/EP and relax and the div teams holding onto players from august to end of c/chip
[/quote]

Not half insulting to junior players, just f**k them out of the way thats your solution basically, there would also be the issue of senior teams leaving their better lads off the 17 so they could go win a junior championship, if you pick out a weekend llets say have senior matches on a friday, senior b and inter matches on a sqturday and junior games on a sunday, you could maybe pick out the marquee game from each grade and play them in o'moore park to keep it active and play the rest of the games elsewhere, theres enough high quality club grounds to cater senior clubs(ex make more sense to have st josephs vs graigue in crettyard or ballyroan vs o'dempseys in stradbally/portarlington), for the senior the junior b and c usually start early july and is played midweek so there should be an issue with them

How would you split it considering that around the tipp/kilkenny borders there's virtually no football, and there is about 8 football clubs, 7 of which are senior lumped into one corner of the county, you could argue for a north/south split like they do in tipp for football but 4 is too much for the moment at least, as for the senior being split its a good thing i reckon long term, all you have to do is look at the hurling championship which hasnt had a back to back winner in 14/15 years, you will also be creating an unbelievably competitive intermediate championship(which is what it is seeing as the winners play leinster intermediate), ill take my own club as an example probably one of the best up and coming football teams in laois going by underage success etc. If westayed in the top 8 they will be exposed to the absolute top level in the county kind of a sink or swim thing, if they are in the new inter championship they are probably at a level closer to their own but they would have a real chance of winning something. What im saying in a roundabout way is that every club should now have a championship to aim for instead of 9/10 senior teams going through the motions

Was wondering if camross would be picked up alright, they seem to have a few at minor level well capable of playing at a higher level and although camross are now a junior a team the likelyhood of them training or putting much of an effort into the football is minimal

If some people here got there way there wouldnt even be 13-16 teams to choose, and before people scoff at the moment there are 24 seperate clubs participating in adult hurling in laois, on these fourms in the last year or so ive heard people want kyle to be absolved by borris/kilcotton, ballypickas by abbeyleix/ballinakill trumera by mountrath, colt clonad and shanahoe to amalgamate, same with castletown and slieve bloom timahoe slieve margy, graiguecullen and mountmellick are major football areas so the likelyhood of gaining a counth player from these areas is low, all that leaves you with a pick of around 14 clubs

Portlaoise have cheddar i hear

Is their any truth to the rumour that sean george was asked back? Wouldbt of thought so personally but seeing his brother playing the other day gave it a small bit of creditbility

Surely first time a laois 15 was named where every player came from a different club

I though that alright, just from what i heard from the shanahoe/ballypickas thing they were going with the first option which wouldnt have been done before, also heard abbeyleix still havnt found a trainer yet

It's a novel way of doing it, but it makes sense if true.
I'd imagine both teams would have small numbers. It would share the burden of paying for a trainer and training costs, would increase camaraderie and it would give those from the smaller club an excellent chance at making the Gaels team.

What happened with the Tyrell fella from last year?

Left of his own accord, believe there was a money issue

Heard that clonad put in the application alright, could be a way of pleasing young bergin maybe, genuinely cant see colt allowing it happen, shanahoe and ballypickas is a done deal, they are going with one trainer for both clubs and training together by all accounts

Heard The Heath voted through the amalgamation with Timahoe last night but afterwards got word that there's now some problem with it from the Timahoe end?

Heard there was an issue with lads who prefer hurling looking to leave, weather thats the issue with timahoe i dont know, but i couldnt imagine them being happy about the footballers being granted a gales team and the hurlers not

Kyle/knock was going on for a few years now, came close a few years ago apparently but they were going to hurl in laois because they reckoned they would make a bigger impact, wonder is a cross county amalgamation been done or even possible?

The biggest impact they could hope for is being a good junior a team as kyle were never too bad but never had enough "good" hurlers, remember playing against them about 15 years ago and we were all thinking how gearoid walsh was wasting his talent there

I wasnt thinking senior challengers, but stable inter team a ratheniska clonad type, again i know very little about knock team

Shanahoe approached them