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I think we would have won comfortably if evan didnt get sent off .. stupid by him

Stood up when we had to in the 2nd half .. pressed high up .. did it well ..

Team still looks a bit unfit but respect to the lads they fought like dogs

Im confident we'll beat offaly

Hard to see where the scores will come from .. hopefully O'Carroll will have a stormer

Its good to see people giving a shit about the state of play. Laois football has been in decline for the last decade.
The senior team will always be the yardstick and now that division 4 is on the horizon people are sitting up and taking notice.
There is the give Creedon a chance posters here and the get rid of him and put someone else in immediately posse.
Although im bitterly disappointed with our performances so far (even given our injury curse) i still know this is so much bigger than Creedon.
It could take 5+ years for things to start to improve .. for now i think things will get worse first

We dont have the cash for a high profile appointment but im not sure that would make much of a difference anyways.
So its the likes of Creddon who has a decent cv or a joe higgins type appointment.

All we can do as supporters is turn up Saturday and next week in Tullamore and shout the lads on.  They are giving it their all.
We will be decimated again by injuries on Saturday but maybe with a good defensive plan and a
willingness to fight like dogs we might get the 2 points ..
Given the injury crisis we have suffered staying in division 3 would be a reasonable achievement

"There is nothing wrong with the talent level in Laois" .. jaysus ballyroanabu .. the underage results from the last decade would suggest otherwise .. if we had everyone fit wed be a good division3 team or a bad division2 team .. I'm with Tony and don ..talent is no there .. sack creedon if u want but it might or mightnt make a small difference .. but we do not have the players anymore .. your living in the past .. we have no real defenders .. without donie we are dreadfully limited up front .. and we arecommend an aging team .. I think division 3 is our level for the foreseeable.. I'll continue to support the team no matter what division they are in but I'm realistic about where laois football is now

Best post of the year don!!

Creedon has had half a team to pick from ffs ..

He may or may not be a success but judge him when he has a full squad

Hes had 4 league games with half a squad

Sometimes patience is called for .. just ask alex ferguson in his first season at utd ..

Great post Giovanni .. BallyroanAbu talking about sacking Creedon after 4 matches is beyond ludicrous ..
Give the man a chance. Lets all take a deep breath and judge where we are at after the league
The players are not there anymore .. No underage success in a decade ..
Tipp are the opposite of us.. Their recent success was built on hard slog at underage ..
Creedon was heavily involved in this ..

And i agree with Tony - stop talking out of your arse .. Creedon was at numerous Club Championship games.

Didnt see the match on Saturday but someone put it up on YouTube.

Played reasonably well in the first half. Went 6 -1 down and fought back well. Should have gone in a few up at half time

2nd half was a bit of a mess. The younger lads faded and we started to run into dead ends.

It looked like a first choice tipp team against half a laois team. They were marginally better.

I feel when the experienced players return, it will take the pressure of the younger lads.

I think we will survive in the division. Would like to see dillon and farrell start the next day.

Its been a tough start for creedon with such a ridiculous injury list.

I think we will improve e as the league rolls on...

Sligo will be a dogfight though .. need a fitter JOL, meaney,dillon, lillis back to get a result..

I think creedon deserves the benefit of the doubt for now.
Lets give him the league before we start condemning the lad.
Granted its been a bad start.
If we get a few of the more experienced players back we'll survive.
A longer term view ala tipp is what we need and that requires patience ..

Hard to see us get anything today .. cant see where the scores will come from ..

Im presuming we'll be much improved defensively though ..

Is dillon out injured? We could do with his pace ..

Have they the option of rolling clarke off the bench?

Fair play heading up there high fielder .. look forward to hearing your report afterwards ..

We are simply not producing enough good footballers. No outfield starter from Portlaoise on Saturday.
Was there even a thousand people there on Saturday.it will fall back to the hundreds for the next home match.
Yet you look at monaghan and they are competing at the top tier from a county with a pop of 60k.

We need a long term plan and hopefully Creedon is the man with the know how to deliver it but the likely
hood is things will get worse before they get better. Hard to keep lads interested as we struggle in the lower divisions playing in front of tiny crowds.

Agree ballyroanabu armagh -2 looks a steal ..

Its a fair point that it was the first match and all that. And one can accept getting beat but
the tactics were non existant from where i was sitting. Thats what concerned me.
Louth are louth. This is division 3. And we were annihilated on our home patch.
They dominated the kick outs. Defended in numbers. And broke at speed.
We had no tactical plan. Horse it into donie who was double marked.
If your playing against a blanket defense you need a tactical plan. We had none.
Creedon deserves time but that was shambolic. I dont mean to be a drama queen but youd
Have to be very concerned about where laois football is going..

They won every one of their kick outs. We didn't know whether to push up or stand off. Did neither and lost every kick out. They knew how to press our kick outs correctly forcing brody to go long and we lost most of those. That gave them a huge platform. Mgmt faults to get something so fundamental so fooking wrong.
They defended on mass and broke at speed. We had no defensive plan.
Louth are a well drilled average team and annihilated us on our home patch.
There's no point going into specific performances the problem was all over. A tactical mess. Want to give creedon time but Worring times.

Its hard to see us going up with an injury toll like that.
Hopefully we can blood some young lads and get some back after the tipp match
But by then the chance of promotion might be gone.
I was gonna back them at 11/4 to go up but youd have to fancy tipp and armagh now.
Regardless ill be there on saturday to shout them on

Evan O Carroll injured too ? Ive never seen it so bad
Probably  easier to name who isnt injured ..