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Who is managing Ballyfin?

Mountmellick lose to Clonaslee and are out of Intermediate. Very poor result for them, Laois could do with a strong Mountmellick team given the size of the area.

Their ultra defensive game plan was hard to stomach.

Mountmellick or Clonaslee's? Wasnt at it..

Mountmellick

Good riddance to Crettyard.

What did the yard ever do to you?

Mountmellick lose to Clonaslee and are out of Intermediate. Very poor result for them, Laois could do with a strong Mountmellick team given the size of the area.

Their ultra defensive game plan was hard to stomach.

exactly, and maybe thats the way the senior football championship should be,

Which has nothing to do with your point.

my point is look at the senior football championship instead of running a tournament at the end of the year.

They did. The clubs refused and acted with all sorts of fuckology. We need the clubs to realise they're at f**k all on their own and start coming together, like Borris Kilcotton did, like Rathdowney Errill did, etc etc.

They wont. So we have this. Give it a chance, its harming no one.

Only issue I see with it is the amount of people on the management panels. Otherwise it's fine.

Whats the issue?

exactly, and maybe thats the way the senior football championship should be,

Which has nothing to do with your point.

also you have 5 or 6 lads over each team from different clubs and they all fighting to get their own players on the field even though deep down they know they not good enough for county standard. on the other hand it did raise a few pound for charity so it cant be put down to much but for spotting talent i don't think its the way to go. look at the progress of the senior hurlers this year and there was no divisional tournament ran!!!

There's 8 Senior Hurling Clubs in Laois. Anyone putting their hand up elsewhere is easily spotted. You're talking through your hoop.

Did we actually find any extra players from it last year as i cant remember any new names playing this year that was not already in the squad or the u-20 squad.

Ah you're dead right, get rid of the f**king thing.

Quirke is a very intelligent, clued in operator. He's a good and well respected coach and has performed at the top level of the game too. He's as good as we could hope for post Sugrue, and possibly even better than we could have hoped for. The backroom team will be interesting.

As was said here, Liam Dunne using Derek McGrath's name to push out Enda Lyons and get the job for himself
Mcgrath will be doing very little coaching & it is part of a placement as he completes a course.

So if I get a financial backer can I be Laois Senior Hurling manager next year??

What the f**k did Eddie do wrong?!

I'd say Castletown will be kicking their lips at playing their rivals Camross, who aren't hurling well so far. Borris-Kilcottom will take care of Ballinakill fairly easily I'd imagine.

The real championship probably won't start until the semi-final stage though.

This is what I meant by shadow boxing. I believe that you will see a different Camross by the semis. Not that they weren't trying against C/B or B/K but they were a mile away from the intensity they normally show. Can't see Castletown getting anywhere near them in the quarters.

How do the semi draws work? I assume it has to be an open draw if Camross and B/K prevail as both have played Ballacolla already?

No Zane, no party.

Here lads, this is the fella who coached HOTY Aussie Gleeson.

Job done. Stand back.

I couldnt give a f**k about winning minors as long as we're developing intercounty players.

Can give you 10-15 thousand reasons why this is a bad idea.. number 1 being this is a minor team, ie 15-17 year old kids, not a senior one.

So McGrath's experience of winning back to back Harty and All Irelands with DLS would probably stand to him.

If thats your number 1, I'd say you wouldn't get to 15, let alone 15,000.

Point being when anyone clubs / county thinks it is ok to pay anyone that type of cash to train kids then we may stop calling the GAA an amateur organisation once and for all. This is an absolute farce and goes against all what the GAA should stand for, and if laois hurling people had any self respect theyd call this out for what it is. More or less the minor manager for the last 2 years lost his job here because someone has thrown money at a name.

Relax. The horse bolted on payments a long time back. The GAA you long for is dead.