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I think it's wrong of that article to state Portlaoise's second team can't be promoted to senior if they win the intermediate. I don't know any rule that doesn't allow it to happen.

Have to agree.

Objection thrown out!

I would be curious as to why it was thrown out. It could be on a technicality rather than the byelaw. I suppose  we have to wait and see. The reality is that he was either regarded or not. If he was regraded then there is no problem otherwise the rules are a farce.

 

There is a misconception out there that if a player misses a year, he is automatically available to play at the lower grade which is not the case. Surprised St Josephs got caught out as they usually are on the ball.

Objection lodged by Park to Joseph's fielding an ineligible player (Garvan)

Pathetic if true.

Not Pathetic at all. If its true the book should be thrown at them. What goes around comes around.

Fairly certain Garvan was never regraded. If so, they are gone.

Very poor final. I'm sure port aren't too worried though.
Not too many stand out players. I though port full back was very good. And their number 10. Not many of the emo Courtwood team played well really.

Having seen these playing the whole way up from under 12, it appears that  a lot of the St Paul's players haven't progressed as much as one would expect. Port were decent enough last night and their  future looks fairly bright considering how well their senior team is going.

Graigue vs Heath - Graiguecullen by 3+
Josephs  v Ballylinan -Draw

Portarlington vs Ballyroan  - Port by 2+
O Dempsey vs Portlaoise- Portlaoise win, first match wasn't good enough but it will have brought them on and flying it in training since.

Killeen vs Mountmellick - AK by 6+
Crettyard vs Clonaslee - Crettyard by 4

Kilcruise vs Kileshin- Kilcruise by 1

Ballyfin v Stradbally?

One would imagine that Stradbally will win but saw them against The Heath and they were very poor. A repeat of that and they could be in trouble.

I tend to agree clonaslee v ballyfin with clonaslee going down

Can Gaels teams be relegated.Clonaslee, Ballyfinn, Mountmellick, Crettyard are all gaels. If so how would it effect the Intermediate promotion. Im not familiar with the "Rules"

Yes. There is a rule somewhere that covers it.

SFC:
O'Dempsey's v Ballyfin G;       O'Dempseys
Portarlington v Arles Killeen;    Arles Killeen
Clonaslee v St Joseph's;         St Josephs 
Ballylinan v Mountmellick G;    Mountmellick  after a replay
Stradbally v The Heath            Stradbally     
Ballyroan Abbey v Crettyard Gaels; Ballyroan Abbey
Arles Kilcruise v Portlaoise;      Portlaoise       
Graiguecullen v Killeshin          Graigcullen  after a replay

http://www.laoistoday.ie/2017/07/18/laois-gaa-vice-chairman-serious-war-words-club-delegate

Hon ya girl Mary.

She's a dose that one but 100% right here. Plenty of other clubs had to play league finals without county players. Mountmellick shouldn't be any different.

From experience, league finals in Division 1 and 2 tend to have the county players. Name a recent example where a Division 1 final was played without county players. I can't think of any but you may be right.

[Laois team named for first ever Leinster U-17 championship opener]

We seem to have a good chance of doing well in this new competition this year.

Laois team named for first ever Leinster U-17 championship opener
http://www.laoistoday.ie/2017/06/27/laois-team-named-first-ever-leinster-u-17-championship-opener/

It looks like a strong team on paper at any rate. Hopefully, we will get off to a good start.

Good to get to the final. Before people get carried away, I don't think some of the stronger counties were represented at the Feile by their top teams.

That club deserves serious praise. A template that should be repeated across the county.

You are right on that. One advantage Rosenallis has is that it is the only club in the parish which puts the club at the heart of the community. Everybody tends to sing from the same hymn sheet. Very few clubs have people as committed as Rosenallis and it shows in their teams. Ballyfin and Clonaslee are other clubs who could do well to emulate them.

Congratulations to Rosenallis on winning the Feile Division 2. This is a great achievement and deserves applause.

The feile has been devalued somewhat since they reformed it a few years ago. But this was real deal in so far as they beat 2 Kilkenny Division 1 teams in the knockout stages. There are only 6 teams in Division 1 in Kilkenny which shows the scale of the achievement.

If you think things are bad now, you can get a glimpse of the future by looking at the tables below for the under 14 "B" competition.  Only 4 of the current senior clubs are playing in the "A"  division in under 14. These are Portlaoise,  Portarlington,  Ballyroan and St Josephs. The other 12 clubs are in the "B". Some of the results make grim reading. 

http://www.laoisgaa.ie/league/115796/u-14_b_f_l_group_a

http://www.laoisgaa.ie/league/115795/u-14_b_f_l_group_b

Very disappointing. As previous poster mentioned they were on a completely different level with power, pace, physicality. They have reason for optimism, they all seem to know their system and are in serious order physically. The full forward, Flynn, gave us enough of it, and he looks flashy, but his conversion rate is that hectic at the moment, and with less ball and hence less chances he might struggle, some pace though.
Our biggest worry is not even for 2017, there's nobody in div 4 is remotely near this level, we should win our fair share in div 4, but it'll be like playing a different sport when you meet a Kildare or Meath , not to mention the dubs.
It may not all be creedons fault, but he is the manager, and ge has now managed to get the sh**e kicked out of us in tullamore, and get relegated out of a poor division 3, even getting beat by the biffos along the way. Some players had really poor effort/showing, I don't see it fair to criticise individuals that give their time freely, but creedons changes/reactions and non-reactions were mind boggling, the donoher sub, defensive set up with the wind, watching Flynn roast his marker with pace for the 70mins.
One last gripe is the short kick outs, we always cough up at least 2 scores with f**ked up versions of these, which is beyond infuriating.

This is probably as low as I can remember (30yrs), to get out of div 4 is where we may start, as beating Longford, London or Wicklow will not have you ready for an outfit like we faced today.

Very disappointing today. It was much worse than I feared as I thought we might have restricted to 5/6. Never really believed they could win it. But this was a comfortable 14 points win  for Kildare. Everybody associated with Laois football has to take some responsibility here and not  just the management team even though the reality is that we just don't have the raw material to remain competitive at the top end. Even if we had, I'm not sure we would know what to do with it. I feel sorry for the players but we are not good enough. The structures within the county are not a help and before anyone starts bashing the county board, there is no evidence that clubs in the county are interested in progressing matters. When an opportunity came earlier in the year to restructure the senior championship it was shot down by the senior clubs as it is all about status. Laois football is at a crossroads where the choice is keep going with a plethora of poorly run and badly organised clubs or put in a structure where every footballer is looked after in a proper fashion from juvenile up. Otherwise they will be no one going to matches in a few years.The official attendance c7500 says it all as even the Kildare crowd didn't travel in droves.