Tailteann Cup 2023

[Spiritof86]

Laois v London Saturday week in Parnell Park at 3pm .

[georgedoylesrightleg]

said laois wud win. Laois shuda won. offsly no great shakes.

[Heshs Umpire]

Laois v London Saturday week in Parnell Park at 3pm .

Hate Parnell Park. Would've preferred a bigger pitch. Points difference could be a factor.

[Laois Rising]

Agree, its an awful tight pitch. You can see why Dublin hurlers wanted to move their games out of there this year. An 18 point swing will be hard to achieve where space is at a premium. I do not expect Cavan to put up a huge winning margin on Offaly as any sort of win will do them so we will probably need to beat London by a minimum of 15 points. A very tall ask. 

[Joeythelips]

I would never want any Laois team to lose any match no matter how much I feel the ship is being run poorly. Im gutted as a supporter and for all involved. I am just pointing out issues I see and am giving my opinion on here. I get we have to focus on the games and take the positives from it but I feel in Laois we have a bit of an inferiority complex at times and accept mediocrity easily.

Its only a couple of years ago I was watching Laois teams under Eddie Brennan and John Sugrue gaining promotions and getting the best out of the resources they had and the drop off since has been dramatic. We seem to just amble along and accept our lot, one of the reasons counties who win things actually win things is they never accept this and challenge it.

I hope the performance against Offaly can spark some resurgence and the season can finish positively.

[Unlaoised]

I hope his changes don't be as bad as the last day it totally changed the game

[Andy06]

Can anyone see us making second in the group? I reckon it would be our only chance to progress further. A trip to Down or Meath will definately be too much for us I think.

[County Man]

Realistically we have to say that to get second is a very tall order. Offaly at plus 9, Laois stand at -9.

If we take this year's league games into account, Laois went over to London and won by 10 points and Cavan went to Offaly and won by 7. Even with a repeat scenario, we would fall short.

Bottom line is that we need to give London the respect they deserve and try get the win that would get us out of the group. Then we can look at where we end up.

The preliminary quater final draw takes place on Saturday evening.

[Junior Ex Laoistalk]

Laois team v London

                        Killian Roche

  Sean Greene, Trevor Collins, Robbie Pigott
Padraig Kirwan, Mark Timmons , P O'Sullivan

                Kieran Lillis, Damon Larkin

   Cathal Doyle, Paul Kingston, James Finn
     Eoin Lowry, Evan O'Carroll, Mark Barry

Subs:
Scott Osborne, Alex Mohan, Seamus Lacey, Sean O'Flynn, Kevin Swayne, Ciaran Burke, Damien O'Connor, Dylan Kavanagh, Niall Corbet, Brian Daly, Colm Murphy

[tyroneStatto]

Meath 1-11 Down 1-9 result. 17 wides I think they said for Down.

[Joeythelips]

Drew with London, be people on here saying we don't have the players to compete with London etc etc.

[Junior Ex Laoistalk]

Very lucky to scrape a draw, I think that makes us officially the worse senior football team in Ireland

[Helix.]

Very lucky to scrape a draw, I think that makes us officially the worse senior football team in Ireland

Should be absolutely embarrassed with themselves. Blame management all you like players have to step up. They're the ones playing. Not good enough.

[Tier2]

Strangely worse than a loss as we get at least 1 more game under this manager.

Officially the lowest point

Serious questions to asked of the county board why this has been let go on for 2 chronic year's.

[BallyroanAbu]

When I said this was a dreadful appointment at the County Board Meeting two years ago I was told Billy was a proud Laois Man and to shut up.  I also told Peter O Neill he was ruining my enjoyment of football.  Nobody batted an eyelid at this appointment, it's a disgrace.  Easy say the players but at U20 they are performing reasonably well without being world beaters.  Today's performance was bottom of the barrell so I think management is solely to blame.