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Thanks Ogie for taking the time to put that together.

Hopefully we get a good batch in either code that can do well and get the county behind them a bit like Offaly over the past few years. A leinster final or two would be great to see in the next few years.

What happened the likes of Cian Taylor and Ciaran McEvoy who were involved with Laois a couple of years ago?

Give Cheddar the job if he'd take it.

Anyone listen to the John Doran interview on OTB with Eoin Sheehan last week. He's the games development officer looking after Kildare hurling. Very interesting. One thing that stood out was when he approached the hurling clubs asking them what they wanted to see done etc the main thing they said was they didn't want a plan that would sit on a shelf gathering dust. It didn't sit gathering dust on a shelf and we saw the fruits of it yesterday. How many plans have Laois had in the past gathering dust on a shelf somewhere??

Not sure if it will work but here's a clip from it via facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/offtheball/videos/1073550114641522

Not too many changes in fairness.

Comerford in for Hartnett and Fennell in for Lennon.

Cha was out anyway so Mark Dowling comes into the forwards.

Is Hartnett carrying a knock?

Tough draw particularly away from home. Westmeath would be up with the favourites for it. It will take a serious performance to get past them.

Whatever the reasons it's not good to have a senior member of the team leaving the panel while they are  preparing for a huge game.

It was very poor and sloppy. Some of those sidelines stick out and as well as numerous hand passes either too long, too high or just too bad.
All individual errors so hopefully no repeat in Croke Park.

We have the beating of Kildare but another performance like we produced in the last two games and we'll be in McDonagh next year again. With Antrim coming down they'll be favourites to go straight back up next year so we need to make sure we win in it Sunday week.

Ogie would you have a link to that interview?

Tyrone kicking the sh**e out of us in 2011 and Beano got a horrific injury. I was at home watching it on RTE and Ger Canning saying he thinks he injured his knee despite them showing slow motion replays that would turn your stomach.

Another was Laois v Kilkenny in hurling (can't recall the year but think it was part of a double header in Croker) and got held up in traffic so arrived a few mins late to my seat in upper Hogan, as I sat down Kilkenny scored a goal which was deflating only to notice the scoreboard and Kilkenny had already put 2-3 or similar on Laois and the game was effectively already over.

Beano's leg freak was in 2004 at Croke Park.

Was he is America that summer?

You also need a group of talented players. Some fine footballers on show last night for both Louth and Offaly.

It's live on the sport Tg4 YouTube channel. Wides killing Laois here as kk aren't flying by any means.

This on clubber tv