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Could this come down to score difference in the end or does head to head decide it.

Head to head if two teams. Scoring difference if more than two teams.

Ah sure why not lash out a load of wild guesses five months from the actual games!

Port to beat Ballyfin
BA should be too strong for PR
Think Strad might edge Courtwood. Hard to call.
Killeshin v Heath will depend a lot on what sort of team Killeshin have available. Another hard to call.
Portlaoise should beat Joes.
Kinda fancy Graigue to get back going this year and maybe edge O'D's.
Clonaslee might edge Killeen.
Emo should be able to win against Rosenallis.
Complete guesswork to be fair!😀

What?? Stop making excuses. It's not easy being on county board and most dont want to give up teh time and energy required for CB roles but dont say its nothing to do with CB when the county team has just lost to Wicklow in Div 4. Dont say its nothing do do with management. Are we mad? Lets wake up.

Why did Laois win '03 Leinster title?

1. We had good underage structures in place in mid 90s to mid 00s which produced highly skilled footballers. Where did this structure come from? who put it inn place, I'm sure CB at time would have had a say and deserve credit for it.

2. Just having a pool of good footballers to choose from is not a solution in itself as a look at the 2002 Laois team and results will testify (most same players were Leinster champions next year after a dreadful 02. So Management teams obviously play a big part. Micko in this case had a massive impact as not only was not one
not committing, the opposite in fact, players were returning to the fold and doing endless laps at the chance of a medal.

Laois were still a midlands county in late 90s early 00s, with a large part of the population working in Dublin or similar issues as we have today. I get its not nice to point the finger of blame but its also silly not to point out if others are simply not good at their job.

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Hard to disagree with any of that .

Laois were beaten in the O'Byrne Cup in Port in 2002, beaten by a poor offaly side in the championship and embarrassed by Meath in Portlaoise in the Qualifiers . Clearly a new manager and a new set up influenced things majorly  the following year .
Laois went from Division 4 to Division 2 under the Sugrue set-up . This is clearly not going to happen under the current regime . This is absolutely disrespect to the current set-up who are doing their best for Laois football .

Fair points but I don't think anyone could compare the quality of players Micko had at his disposal in 2003 to the ones Billy has in 2023. But Billy has to take some citicism. There's no way the net was cast wide enough for players over the last 4 months.

Should the county board be above criticism? No, they're the ones who put Billy in place. But then again, was there a big queue of quality managers interested? I don't think so.

I thought ye might enjoy this
https://twitter.com/EwanMacKenna/status/1629932708158644227


"Had misfortune of running into chunks of this Kildare panel in recent years. Gym monkeys. Single digit IQ. Huge talent for sure but unlikable idiots who think playing county and being humiliated is an achievement worthy of arrogance. Just morons. I'm embarrassed beyond results"

He seems a nice fella. I've absolutely zero love for Kildare teams to be honest but that's a ridiculous statement. 

We (Laois) are three from three now but honestly were very unimpressive yesterday. I wouldn't suggest lumping on it or anything but I would give Wicklow a decent chance of turning us over next Saturday night in Portlaoise. It's a very flattering league table.

No great pleasure in being right with this.
It was a very poor performance but not a massive surprise.
When we were down a few starters, O'Carroll, Byrne, Finn, we were left with a very thin, inexperienced bench.

We (Laois) are three from three now but honestly were very unimpressive yesterday. I wouldn't suggest lumping on it or anything but I would give Wicklow a decent chance of turning us over next Saturday night in Portlaoise. It's a very flattering league table.

Should have lumped it

I wouldn't back against Laois but I knew it was a decent bet.
Laois had flattered a bit in Carlow and Sligo.

[Division 1, 2 and 3 will operate on a split system where after one round of games, the top four and bottom four in each will play again in a smaller group.The top two teams in the winners group in each Division will contest the final while the bottom two in the losers group will be relegated.]

Division 1, 2 and 3 will operate on a split system where after one round of games, the top four and bottom four in each will play again in a smaller group.
The top two teams in the winners group in each Division will contest the final while the bottom two in the losers group will be relegated.

This, along with the senior championship restructure 
It's like they are on a mission to create the most ridiculous formats they can think of.

League format is grand. 10 games is around the right number. The spilt means there's a lot less dead rubbers.

I probably would have left the senior football championship alone alright but you also have to realise that it's the clubs themselves who are putting the formats in place when they vote them in at county committee meetings. 

We (Laois) are three from three now but honestly were very unimpressive yesterday. I wouldn't suggest lumping on it or anything but I would give Wicklow a decent chance of turning us over next Saturday night in Portlaoise. It's a very flattering league table.

Still no club fixtures on the official website.

Pat Ryan is back for another stint with Emo.

And of course I should have mentioned Greene when it came to a good effort from the losing team last might. He was double or treble teamed every time he got on the ball.

Straightforward enough for BA in the final last night. Courtwood Emo not at the races from the very start. Very little more you can say. The big guns, Fitzpatrick, McEvoy, James McWey, Obular and the Rathdowney man Rafter all played very well. Only O'Flynn showed any resistance at all for CE.
There simply has to be the material there for a senior title for BA over the next few years.

Hope Jack is doing well. Not having a go at his replacements on the radio as it's a tough job that I wouldn't like to do, but you only know how good Jack is when he's not there.

No one more disappointed than Port themselves. They know they are better than that. Just one of those nights where nearly the whole starting 15 played well below their level. Crokes didn't even have to play particularly well.

A great character altogether who I wouldn't remember playing but came across many a time when he was refereeing. May he rest in peace.