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Holland Timmons nerney
Collins Begley attride

Jol Evan

Farrel Kingston o Reilly

Munnely walsh Lowry



For freshness sake. Buggie out injured i hear

I hear what your saying but its not like he rocked up in the middle of the league. 2 weeks before the first match  and if imagine by johns form he will be running for quiet a while before kicking a ball . The last 2 months were an opportunity for fringe lads to put the hand up. Im sure the lads that did are there.

There was 

Tough night for forwards first half no ball with the wind second half lads picking off points from deep robbie piggot with 2 from half back. With the installation of mister cannon as strength and conditioning sean moore needs 2-3 years of heavy work to help him fill out properly. In my opinion Laois should appoint a S and C team with a 5 year plan and keep them in place irrespective of management change. This will insure a plan and progression instead of constant change. The players look really fit rumours of serious running and group gym work must be true. I expect the large panel to be trimmed this week and work to begin settling a team for the league. Get them fit the football will come with jerome stack involved. Fair balls to john sugrue for having the balls to sacrifice a few throw away win results and test players in different roles. Player's looked happy morale looks high.
Roll on limrick

From what I saw positions not 100%
Keogh

Finn
Begley
Kelly

Piggot
Glynn
David Holland

Lillis
Coss

Luttrell
Paul k
Donoher

Ross
Forbes
Moore

That's the bones of it im sure or there abouts. Shocking weather.

Subs not sure on

Lost by 4 or 5 against a serious cohesive drilled  moorefield who have been together all year.. alot of that team named last night was there last roll of the dice for a squad spot before the settling of a starting team begins.  good performance from Robbie piggot and Colm coss. Ross lead from the front. Played into a storm the first half held moorefield to a point or 2 in the second.

The man is 20 lets leave him prove himself as a senior footballer. He was very good  21 player on a great 21 team playing against lets face it weak opposition.
Loads of potential and time..
Have to admire sugrues honesty.
Unfortunate to see the knives out already.
I'm remaining positive for the rest of the squad including colm murphy who is still there despite long term injury

Pat Daly of rhode fame jumps on the o Dempseys managerial merry go round.

Kingston is a massive loss 

Looking at where a primary scoring forward will emerge from will be intriguing.

I think Sugrue made some good choices in picking his back room team.

I think paul Kingston Gary walsh and Alan farrell will step up
Besiides eoin Kearns and stack who else is in there???

Sorry but your talking of replacing Donie with 2 players who were not regular starters under the previous 3 managers, And another who spent the majority of his time with Laois in his own half working (obviously in a role he was asked to play by the previous manager)?

Paul Kingston- Talented footballer, Incredible at times. but hasn't the same physical presence or scoring volume of his sibling

Gary Walsh- Good, But wont contribute the scores Donie has.

Alan Farrell- A workhorse forward, Good skillset but not a prolific scorer.

Maybe this system will suit them, and allow them to flourish.




Kearns could have took any of the other Laois gigs on his own merit.

Stack knows that group, and will have better guidance on the direction of the team than he had with his previous time with Laois

Brendan Delaney-Reportedly very good, and has previously worked with John, It must be said trust in any managerial setup is key !!!

The S&C guy has come from left of field, so I cant comment, as I know very little on him

Think that's the lot.

Good info thanks for that a lad on trials said there was one more in there fella from cork supposed to be very good.
God no im not on about replacing donnie cause you cant really but i think those lads could step up and do a job. They wont score as much but will work.

Was talking to one of the lad I know that was in for trials, Seemingly it's Brian Breen, I'd say he's only in to Ref the in house games, as he would be barely capable of that let alone any other task!!!

Well if we can't replace Donie's scores, We will be in a world of bother in the championship, as he scored the majority of our scores last year!!!!!!

On the transfer saga, are we looking at a big name down that side???

Ah brian breen na i doubt he is in reffing saw mousey moore myself doing a few of those matches he was moving well to be fsir. Thats Brian breen from o Dempseys i presume 2 good years under the belt promotion and leage pleasant to deal with from all accounts im guessing with PORT being in your username its local rivalry. Lets be positive give lads a chance before cutting the legs from under them

Promoting a senior team back to senior as a selector is hardly a massive achievement???

Not in anyway connected to local rivalry, but I just feel he lacks the caliber to be involved in any inter-county setup.


Will it effect our county team this transfer  ?

Ah that's fair enough thought he was a S and C coach doubt a lad with little experience would be a selector probably just giving a hand out. Anyone willing to go in and give a dig out with things they way they are has my respect best of luck to them all in there. Hopfully port get a few lads in there colm murphy might step up for donnie with a bit of coaching.

In senior football
Create two regional teams basically divide Laois in a straight line
East Laois
Annanough , Barrowhouse, Timahoe , Courtwood , Spink/Ballinakil
Park/Rathineska etc
West Laois
Mountmellick, Roseinallis, Kilcavan , The Rock and a collection of predominantly hurling clubs etc.

In the Laois SHC it would be better to divide the regions into North and South with every team not playing in the top tier of the SHC eligible for inclusion for the regional teams.

Bang on the money good post

Kingston is a massive loss 

Looking at where a primary scoring forward will emerge from will be intriguing.

I think Sugrue made some good choices in picking his back room team.

I think paul Kingston Gary walsh and Alan farrell will step up
Besiides eoin Kearns and stack who else is in there???

Sorry but your talking of replacing Donie with 2 players who were not regular starters under the previous 3 managers, And another who spent the majority of his time with Laois in his own half working (obviously in a role he was asked to play by the previous manager)?

Paul Kingston- Talented footballer, Incredible at times. but hasn't the same physical presence or scoring volume of his sibling

Gary Walsh- Good, But wont contribute the scores Donie has.

Alan Farrell- A workhorse forward, Good skillset but not a prolific scorer.

Maybe this system will suit them, and allow them to flourish.




Kearns could have took any of the other Laois gigs on his own merit.

Stack knows that group, and will have better guidance on the direction of the team than he had with his previous time with Laois

Brendan Delaney-Reportedly very good, and has previously worked with John, It must be said trust in any managerial setup is key !!!

The S&C guy has come from left of field, so I cant comment, as I know very little on him

Think that's the lot.

Good info thanks for that a lad on trials said there was one more in there fella from cork supposed to be very good.
God no im not on about replacing donnie cause you cant really but i think those lads could step up and do a job. They wont score as much but will work.

Was talking to one of the lad I know that was in for trials, Seemingly it's Brian Breen, I'd say he's only in to Ref the in house games, as he would be barely capable of that let alone any other task!!!

Well if we can't replace Donie's scores, We will be in a world of bother in the championship, as he scored the majority of our scores last year!!!!!!

On the transfer saga, are we looking at a big name down that side???

Ah brian breen na i doubt he is in reffing saw mousey moore myself doing a few of those matches he was moving well to be fsir. Thats Brian breen from o Dempseys i presume 2 good years under the belt promotion and leage pleasant to deal with from all accounts im guessing with PORT being in your username its local rivalry. Lets be positive give lads a chance before cutting the legs from under them

Some interesting rumours around regarding transfers of some Laois footballers. One out of Laois and a couple of moves inside the county.

Fire them up there buddy

One to Athy and another one to make a short move to Josephs I heard. Don't know its true but they both have come from a lad who knows more than me about these things.

Sensational transfer request is in the pipeline i hear. It is jaw dropping but to be fair to the individual i cannot say anything further. Letting the name onto a public forum would probably allow grumblers to begin a campaign to immobilize the individuals chances of the transfer succeeding. I hear the chances of the transfer going through is almost 100% certain.

You cant say who it is but can you say who it isn't.
Kingston brothers can you say its not them

Kingston is a massive loss 

Looking at where a primary scoring forward will emerge from will be intriguing.

I think Sugrue made some good choices in picking his back room team.

I think paul Kingston Gary walsh and Alan farrell will step up
Besiides eoin Kearns and stack who else is in there???

Sorry but your talking of replacing Donie with 2 players who were not regular starters under the previous 3 managers, And another who spent the majority of his time with Laois in his own half working (obviously in a role he was asked to play by the previous manager)?

Paul Kingston- Talented footballer, Incredible at times. but hasn't the same physical presence or scoring volume of his sibling

Gary Walsh- Good, But wont contribute the scores Donie has.

Alan Farrell- A workhorse forward, Good skillset but not a prolific scorer.

Maybe this system will suit them, and allow them to flourish.




Kearns could have took any of the other Laois gigs on his own merit.

Stack knows that group, and will have better guidance on the direction of the team than he had with his previous time with Laois

Brendan Delaney-Reportedly very good, and has previously worked with John, It must be said trust in any managerial setup is key !!!

The S&C guy has come from left of field, so I cant comment, as I know very little on him

Think that's the lot.

Good info thanks for that a lad on trials said there was one more in there fella from cork supposed to be very good.
God no im not on about replacing donnie cause you cant really but i think those lads could step up and do a job. They wont score as much but will work.

I believe the Clonaslee Annanough football thing is gone. County board are only allowing amalgamation of neighbouring clubs or historically linked clubs?
Annanough got nothing out of it anyway only injuries and relegated. They should focus on getting back up out of junior.

Speaking to any Annanough man and they felt it worked very well, despite the relegation. Their players got exposure to senior, and could still play alongside their clubmen as well. They felt the relegation wasn't related to the amalgamation.

The county board would do well to pull their f**king finger out and sort out an avenue for junior and intermediate club players to get access to the top grade of football without having to make up esb bills before they destroy the club structures at lower levels in Laois.

Totally agree there should be a way of junior and intermediate teams to join up and get senior football.
Cork and kerry do this very well you're either a stand alone senior team or a collective of junior/inter  teams from a never changing location. Eg. South kerry or seandun which is the cork city collective of junior teams could be 10 clubs together. They dont get relegated as the club's change on who is junior or not and if they win the senior championship the last stand alone senior team goes in Leinster munster etc. None of these random pairings can hsppen its a local area only scenario.
Simple really

Kingston is a massive loss 

Looking at where a primary scoring forward will emerge from will be intriguing.

I think Sugrue made some good choices in picking his back room team.

I think paul Kingston Gary walsh and Alan farrell will step up
Besiides eoin Kearns and stack who else is in there???