Fair points. I guess we need all our players playing, at the very least, to get anywhere near that. No doubt some won't commit now Brennan has gone. Some already didn't anyway. I don't think Tipp or Cavan are missing too many.
Peter Acheson is in Dubai
Liam Mc Grath Australia all ireland minor captain in 2011
Josh Keane Australia young footballer of the year nominee in 2016
John Meagher left to join the hurlers this year
All would be starters
And as a tipp football fan reminded this week,of his top 10 footballers playing club football there, he says only 3 are playing county football,the likes of john Brian Mcgrath and Seamus Kennedy are all gone to the hurlers
We have 2 main issues with Laois Hurling
Governance
And
Culture
We have a lot of the supporters thinking we were great to get so close to to Clare
We weren’t
We should have beaten them and that’s the reality
Brennan came into Laois with an outsiders perspective and had a lot more belief in our lads than many within the county
A golden crop. We've had those too. Cavan not noted for their hurling and similar population size to Laois. Tipp significantly bigger
They have that many missing and they still got to where they are,now
2 all Ireland semi finals in 5 years when was the last time our golden crops did that?
you describe them as a "golden crop"
the same as if they sprouted overnight,
they havent,
there was a strategic football plan put in place in Tipp as far back as 2008 with the aim of improving juvenile structures,improving coaching,widening the player base and setting aims such as winning minor,u21 and provincial crowns,
the last target was to have them in a an all Ireland senior final by 2020.
I have nephews in a north club in Tipp probably playing or training football a third of the time,this has been in place for the past 10 years
When my brother in law was their age, he wouldn't have even known or cared what a football was.
Every excuse seems to be trundled out in Laois as to why we cant
as opposed to why we can
