Leinster Minor Football Championship 2018

[les Antiques]

Would give Phelan and O'Loughlin another year each . Nothing gained by changing those positions next year . A bit of continuity needed .

[Laoiseabu]

They also  lost to Tipp by 30 points two weeks ago the u16s. So where is the evidence that these development squads actually make players into good players?

[SpeculativeEffort]

Surely Tipp played their Deveopment squad v us and they are clearly making it work. If lads get disheartened and give up from not making an underage development team then maybe its their attitude thats the problem not the dev squad?

[Nameless]

Development squads are definitely the way to go. If they're not working then it's because the set up isn't right. The very least these development squads should produce is highly athletic, fit and strong young players. Have we seen that?

[Laoiseabu]

The bottom line is we obviously don't have the players at minor or u16 level . Minors hammered by Meath and Kildare and the u16s hammered by Tipp and Wexford. Well if a development squad is aimed at producing strong athletic players its obviously not working for us. Meath walked through us from start to go finish and seem to have a few decent lads coming through.

[Laoiseabu]

Could someone tell me is there a difference between the way a development squad is ran in Laois compared to Meath or Kildare ?

[Nameless]

The answers are staring you in the face, that's if you've actually gone to any Laois underage games?

[Pablo Escobar]

I'd be of the opinion we should as a county be pumping more resources into the secondary schools of the county as regional "centres of excellence" and to disband with development squads altogether until minor. Schools such as Knockbeg , Portlaoise CBS, Colaiste Iosagain , mountrath  , Heywood, Mountmellick and Clonaslee , with the aim to develop footballers within these schools and to make them challengers and hopefully winners of their various grades in schools football. This is where footballers should develop rather than picking 30 you should be looking to develop around 200 each at the 3 age groups of under 14.5, 16.5 and 19 . Coaches should be assigned to these schools to work alongside the great work done by teachers such as Chris Conway, Stephen Attride in Knockbeg and Atch Whelan in Clonaslee amongst others and be exposed to S and  C and top level coaching when they are part of their school squads . This should have a positive impact on club football too within the county .I believe it's an area being neglected by the county board from my experience involved with school teams .

[Laoiseabu]

Not exactly nameless . Kildare and Meath beat us at minor I was at both games . Development squads aside they might just have better bigger more physically imposing more skillful players than us anyway. Both those counties are picking from bigger pools of players than us too so they can afford to pick that sort of player if you know what I mean. A Meath man told me that before any of those guys went into development squads they knew they were going to be a good bunch .

[Laoiseabu]

Like I said before a dev squad is not gonna turn an ass into a racehorse.

[Laoiseabu]

That's a fair enough point Pablo Escobar . More youngsters need to be got interested in the game and that can be done is secondary and primary schools .

[Laoiseabu]

By much ?

[Don Draper]

By much ?

Congrats on beating Kerry yesterday.

[on the hop]

U-16's beaten by 12 points by wicklow

[Don Draper]

U-16's beaten by 12 points by wicklow

Wicklow are a coming side, the garden is about to bloom. No shame in that result.