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I presume all of it is taken on board, it's aspirational and despite everybody knowing it's the right thing to do.  It has very little chance of being implemented to any degree.  Even take the most obvious one the recalibrating of the club championship which does not need money, this would take a minor miracle to get ratified.

Right and where are the progressive people and Money because that's what they really need.

Have Ballylinan ever been relegated ?

Bective Stud, is a sugar daddy.  That we simply don't have

If Port are dominant on Laois Team we are in dire straits,  which we are club football is a shadow of 2000-2010

Not near comparable with previous stuff, handbags at best.  Would it get into top 5, place is going soft.  Should not happen but lots of emotion.

https://www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/gaa/664803/sunday-game-pundit-embroiled-in-escalating-dispute-over-major-midlands-gaa-venue.html

Very young Portlaoise team would not be shocked if you named 7 of them on a Junior Team

Kearns is O Dempseys Manager, not that interesting.

What's wrong with Laois Football/ Hurling well we all know what's wrong.  However we all seem to think this is as bad as it can get where I think far worse could happen.  My biggest issue for the last couple of years is the absense of a coherent plan,  Mike Hency has been brought in and given carte blance,  his doing a job but who in god's name makes him answerable to no one.  It's really the same as Mike Quirke if he doesnt answer to anyone who is in charge.  Managers of the Senior County Squad have absolutely nothing to do with Laois Football.. There is a football committee made up of one person that is madness.  Laois Football should have a plan and set targets that are ambitious but realistic.  I love Laois Football but currently sick of it as I pointed out years ago what was coming and I was ridculed,  I take no pleasure in what has come to pass.

We're hoping to go with Abbeyleix on one pending Commitee approval, Portlaoise need more than 1 but it's a start.

Look Laois Football needs it's senior team to be a relative success,  but what we need to do is set out a strategy for going forward with targets(which are assessed and checked) for going forward.  Mike Hency is in as games administrator and that helps,  but the idea of putting all our eggs in that basket is wrong.  We need to promote coaching in Laois,  figure out why our older lads won't get involved,  educate them when they do and promote when deserving.  For far too long Laois Football is being ran like a club.  These GDA's need to be hired by the clubs regardless of cost and the biggest issue we need to promote GAA among the non-national community in Portlaoise/Laois.  If the County Board had to go in and do this I think that's a gamble worth trying.  It's a very large community and completely untapped.   I genuinely don't believe there has been a major talent problem in Laois for the last 15 years more like poor coaching.  All the teams that qualified for the U17/U20 Leinster Finals were hammered so I am not so sure they are the solution.  We could be decent inside 10 years at Senior with some success at Juvenile if we take the bull by the horns.

I am still extremely sore about Mark Bates and the way he was hired at Minor over Killian Fitzpatrick and Noel Coss this was short-sighted  stupid.   We should never be hiring outside the County for Juvenile teams and only in extreme cases for Senior Teams. 

Your problably right on Roscommon game,  I just remember a last minute goal.

I fear the worst is yet to come,  constant short-term thinking from the County Board.  Appointing Managers who are interested in only their own career ( who can blame them).  Nearly 15 years of  mis-managed underage system,  it's all our own fault.  Too many of the starting team on the wrong side of 30.  Quirke has introduced nothing, and looks completely out of his depth.  The signs were there last year fluking a victory against Roscommon & Fermanagh.  I really think we could end up in Div 4 again this time with a team that may not get out as quickly. 

RIP Johnny a good guy