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Clonaslee doesn't support or condone foul play in any shape or form

Well, they probably didn't want to take the p*ss too much.

U12 Div3 was available until recently. U12 Div1 & 2 fixtures all messed up. It's a lack of basic attention to detail that I find frustrating.

The wall is gone they knocked it last week 

Right. I'm great at suggesting things that have already happened., it appears.

It's one thing inheriting a problem from a previous regime, but it's another to simply build during a (sporting) recession.

Why not insert a few gates halfway down the wall between the CoE & OMP to allow the dressing rooms in OMP to be used?

If we've no money in the coffers for on-the-field stuff, then why has the CB undertaken "legacy" projects like the centre of excellence. Someone I know told me that because it's in Laois, it should be called a 'centre of normality'. Good burn, but shows that Laois is not even a blip on the GAA Richter scale anymore.

Why have we taken on MASSIVE capital projects, when our on-the-field exploits are taking a nose-dive?

How much of a loss was made on that field in Ballyroan, which was bought in the boom? Why are dressing rooms being built in the COE, when OMP is right beside it?

This is what the Dubs slate the lesser counties for - developing grounds and CoE's, while they invest in players etc. You can qualify their remarks easily by pointing out that they can have a shitty little county ground because Croker is available to them, while training facilities are at their disposal, in the many Unis in the city...plus Abbottstown.......(edit).....all paid for by the Croker.

We need a businessman at the helm in Laois CB for a while. Someone canny, with good contacts. Plus we need forward-thinking, proactive people and not reactive, protectionists.

I agree. Some posters are morons.

Players are expected to act like complete professionals, when they give up their lives. A pint or two won't affect them much.

It's easier for say, the Dubs, to do so, as there's an All Ireland medal in the offing. Along with a huge pick, there's the carrot of the medal and the 'stick' of being dropped. Counties like Laois won't be seeing Croke Park in September for a long time and expecting players.

You can argue that drinking and poor discipline is why we won't see it, but it's not fair on them.

Why not both? Are you saying that the courts are bound by the rulings of our CB?

Don't name anyone. Any player named as a drinker could end up suing for libel. It might not be a hugely serious issue in the greater scheme of things - that a player has a few drinks - but a court could see it as besmirching his good name. So, unless you have €30k packed away somewhere, I wouldn't.

The Clonaslee thing is in the papers and on social media. No hiding for the CB on this.

A lot of Laois' population increase are simply blow-ins. How much interest are these people taking in local clubs? In a lot of larger towns, you'll see more Dublin jerseys than Laois ones.

Anyway, back on topic, the proposal could be a stop-gap until G@@ figures out how to sell snow to the eskimos.

I am starting this thread and will immediately duck to avoid getting hit by all the missiles that will be thrown at me!

Just an idea......


Ulster recently came up with the idea of creating an Ulster team to enter the All-Ireland hurling competition - pulling in all the best hurlers to produce a team that might be much more competitive than Antrim alone. (There are zero Ulster teams in this years championship - Antrim are Christy Ring).

What about the idea of a Midlands or Divisional team?? For pig-iron's sake say Laois, Carlow, Kildare, Wicklow or (god forbid) Laois, Offaly, Westmeath. There are a 100 ways it could be put together and another 1000 problems but it could give the best players in each county a chance at a Leinster / All-Ireland medal.

To be honest, it's following the elitist path that Croke Park are paving at the moment.

It's not a bad idea and similar to the approach of clubs giving their players a chance to play A underage or senior adult, this would permit players from Laois, Offaly & Westmeath to start thinking of the later stages. Kildare had a useful league campaign too.

If you put Laois/Carlow/Wicklow, Offaly/Kildare/Westmeath/Meath and Ulster, you add two panels of players who won't see the business end of an All Ireland championship for a long time. Those combos account for most of Div2 in the 2017 NHL.

Should be proposed.

At it again...U12 Div1 hurling. Teams down to play home and away on the same night.

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Welcome back Nameless...you'll be fine. Just trying to figure out who Huey is.

The County Board could fine them. The players involved should be banned. The club should be asked to name every player involved or face removal from all competitions....either this year or next.

There's plenty the CB could do with lots of things that are wrong in this county, but don't.

S & C expert C O' N as you put it Don had a very bad car accident a few years ago and had two discs removed from his back. I would imagine that would impact on his ability to exercise

Personally i wouldnt have bothered giving the question/remark an answer.

I think it was required. Don had a fit a few weeks ago, when someone mistyped "artistic" as "austistic".

Yet, he seems happy enough to throw jibes at others, when he feels like it.

Odd use of the phrase fit and autistic in that context. It was a valid query given the use of the term autistic at the time in question. The OP had no issue with explaining himself in due course.

You're reading things into posts that aren't there Donny boy.

Anyway, my post was clearly directed at your hypocrisy and not the other poster's apology, which you seem to think vindicates your original objection. However, it's your subsequent post, sneering at someone's weight, that de-bases your level of butt-hurt at the 'autistic' typo.

I, myself, will reserve the right to call anyone autistic, artistic, hypocritical or whatever. If you don't like one area of society referenced in a post, don't single anyone else out for cheap laughs in your own.