Laois Senior Football Championship 2016

[merman]

Diarmuid Conway from CB. He was on the minor hurling panel this year.

There must be some link with Ballyroan as his father is a selector on the team.

[BallyroanAbu]

It's 1979 since Ballyroan last won a minor so it's a big deal for Ballyroan.  They have 5 Senior players plus 1 or 2 that are too young for Senior.  Also a lot of Abbeyleix hurlers and Moffitt & Conway so they are pretty decent.  Ballacolla has always had isolated footballers with Ballyroan

[Don Draper]

Thought Ballacolla players played with The Heath as well? Not to mention an intercounty hurler who played football with Annanough.

[OTF]

It's 1979 since Ballyroan last won a minor so it's a big deal for Ballyroan.  They have 5 Senior players plus 1 or 2 that are too young for Senior.  Also a lot of Abbeyleix hurlers and Moffitt & Conway so they are pretty decent.  Ballacolla has always had isolated footballers with Ballyroan

1971. I'd say ?

[BallyroanAbbey]

I got in a bit of trouble with some posters on the hurling page for saying that abbeyleix bottled the minor hurling but im afraid that with the same group of players they did not learn their lesson, having a 5 point lead with 15 minutes to go is the same as having a 10 point lead in hurling and the exact same that happened in the hurling happened tonight except this time we were caught. We got in a position where the game should of been closed out and it wasnt, panic set in when they got the goal, albeit they got some cracking points to equalize and go ahead.
The only consolation is that some of those boys are cracking players and that tonight defeat will allow them to learn the lessons they clearly didnt against ballacolla in the hurling

[Heshs Umpire]

It's 1979 since Ballyroan last won a minor so it's a big deal for Ballyroan.  They have 5 Senior players plus 1 or 2 that are too young for Senior.  Also a lot of Abbeyleix hurlers and Moffitt & Conway so they are pretty decent.  Ballacolla has always had isolated footballers with Ballyroan

It's 1965 since Emo parish won a minor A so a fair big deal for us tonight!

[Downtheroad]

It's 1979 since Ballyroan last won a minor so it's a big deal for Ballyroan.  They have 5 Senior players plus 1 or 2 that are too young for Senior.  Also a lot of Abbeyleix hurlers and Moffitt & Conway so they are pretty decent.  Ballacolla has always had isolated footballers with Ballyroan

It's 1965 since Emo parish won a minor A so a fair big deal for us tonight!

In fairness you have a chunk of Mountmellick town playing with you as well which is a bit of a joke. Nevertheless congrats the best team won.

[Keyser Söze]

Congrats to the winners!

The constitution of many juvenile teams is strange these days. In fact, I think it is worrying! Take the two teams involved tonight.
As previously mentioned the eligibility of some of those Rock players could be questioned- although I'd imagine that once they became Rock players back as 8/10 year olds (or whenever) that's the end of it. The Rock are renowned for having an "eclectic mix"- and drawing players from unusual places.

Ballyroan Abbey Gaels is very interesting! I'm not questioning it's eligibility but as you look down the grades it's very interesting!

Minor Hurling-
Abbeyleix Gaels- Abbeyleix (with Ballyroan players) plus Ballypickas
Clough Ballacolla (on their own!)

Minor Football-
Ballyroan Abbey Gaels- Ballyroan (with Abbeyleix players) plus St Fintan's Raheen, plus an isolated player from Clough Ballacolla.

U16 Hurling-
Abbeyleix Gaels- Abbeyleix (with Ballyroan players) plus Clough Ballacolla
St Fintan's Ballypickas- St Fintan's Raheen plus Ballypickas.

So in the minor hurling final you will potentially have players playing against each other who play together at U16 level (Abbeyleix & Ballacolla) and players playing with each other who play against each other at U16 level (Abbeyleix & Ballypickas!)

This all seems messy to me!

[Keyser Söze]

And by my calculations, there was the opportunity to have up up to 8 clubs "legally" represented tonight?

1) Ballyroan, Abbeyleix, Colt, Shanahoe, Clough Ballacolla
2) Emo, Courtwood, The Rock.

Is this not taking things a bit far?

[Don Draper]

Congrats to the winners!

The constitution of many juvenile teams is strange these days. In fact, I think it is worrying! Take the two teams involved tonight.
As previously mentioned the eligibility of some of those Rock players could be questioned- although I'd imagine that once they became Rock players back as 8/10 year olds (or whenever) that's the end of it. The Rock are renowned for having an "eclectic mix"- and drawing players from unusual places.

Ballyroan Abbey Gaels is very interesting! I'm not questioning it's eligibility but as you look down the grades it's very interesting!

Minor Hurling-
Abbeyleix Gaels- Abbeyleix (with Ballyroan players) plus Ballypickas
Clough Ballacolla (on their own!)

Minor Football-
Ballyroan Abbey Gaels- Ballyroan (with Abbeyleix players) plus St Fintan's Raheen, plus an isolated player from Clough Ballacolla.

U16 Hurling-
Abbeyleix Gaels- Abbeyleix (with Ballyroan players) plus Clough Ballacolla
St Fintan's Ballypickas- St Fintan's Raheen plus Ballypickas.

So in the minor hurling final you will potentially have players playing against each other who play together at U16 level (Abbeyleix & Ballacolla) and players playing with each other who play against each other at U16 level (Abbeyleix & Ballypickas!)

This all seems messy to me!

Thats f**king hilarious.

[Downtheroad]

Congrats to the winners!

The constitution of many juvenile teams is strange these days. In fact, I think it is worrying! Take the two teams involved tonight.
As previously mentioned the eligibility of some of those Rock players could be questioned- although I'd imagine that once they became Rock players back as 8/10 year olds (or whenever) that's the end of it. The Rock are renowned for having an "eclectic mix"- and drawing players from unusual places.

Ballyroan Abbey Gaels is very interesting! I'm not questioning it's eligibility but as you look down the grades it's very interesting!

Minor Hurling-
Abbeyleix Gaels- Abbeyleix (with Ballyroan players) plus Ballypickas
Clough Ballacolla (on their own!)

Minor Football-
Ballyroan Abbey Gaels- Ballyroan (with Abbeyleix players) plus St Fintan's Raheen, plus an isolated player from Clough Ballacolla.

U16 Hurling-
Abbeyleix Gaels- Abbeyleix (with Ballyroan players) plus Clough Ballacolla
St Fintan's Ballypickas- St Fintan's Raheen plus Ballypickas.

So in the minor hurling final you will potentially have players playing against each other who play together at U16 level (Abbeyleix & Ballacolla) and players playing with each other who play against each other at U16 level (Abbeyleix & Ballypickas!)

This all seems messy to me!

Thats f**king hilarious.

There were some good players on view tonight most notably on the winning side as they had 4 under 16s in the forward line who all look like county players. However, I don't think Ballyroan and Emo, the two senior clubs with players tonight will get many senior standard players out of it in the next year or two. On the Ballyroan side, some lads are going to opt for hurling while Courtwood had some very good players on the winning team. 

[The Monument Road]

Josephs barrowhouse beat sarsfields in the minor championship this year...sarsfield are mountmellick so how come MM players still won a minor....

[Downtheroad]

Josephs barrowhouse beat sarsfields in the minor championship this year...sarsfield are mountmellick so how come MM players still won a minor....

This could only happen in Laois. In order for the Courtwood Emo Rock amalgamation to take place, Courtwood and Emo were deemed by the Co board to be isolated players so they could play with The Rock who are based in Mountmellick parish.  You had the ludicrous situation  last night where 25 players were technically isolated  in order to facilitate a handful of players. A strict interpretation of the rules would suggest that each Emo and Courtwood player should have filled a permission form in order to play with the amalgamation. The Rock players are not illegal, it's the other way around. With this application of the rule, EMO/Courtwood can pick up players from Mountmellick parish who are playing with the Rock which isn't far off poaching.

[Mau5]

In fairness you have a chunk of Mountmellick town playing with you as well which is a bit of a joke. Nevertheless congrats the best team won.

Who do they have from Mountmellick?

[Unison]

It's 1965 since Emo parish won a minor A so a fair big deal for us tonight!
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There were some good one on that team, between Lawlors, Dunnes etc.