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Extra day recovery for the players.

Only an hour and a half from Portlaoise to Ennis so not the most arduous journey for players or supporters.

This is heartbreaking for Cheddar and the players. They put so much into their county. All we can ask for they give. I hope Cheddar stays involved at underage level. Big challenge now for the county board to step up and very hard for lads to commit to another manager like they did for Cheddar.

I think it will be about whichever team improves the most. Both teams were absolutely dreadful the last day with us slightly better.

Very hard to beat the same team twice when both teams are about the same level. Hope our boys have their heads right.

Mark Rooney. And I've no sympathy. Sick of county teams holding up club football.

I agree. In addition, there is little evidence that keeping lads fresh helps anything. A good hard game a week away might do them a world of good, especially those lads who have been doing the leaving etc. who probably have very little football in recent weeks.

We beat them 4 years in a row at minor level, often by large margins. We should also have beaten them this year by the way.

It does seem that we stop our player development post minor wheras they have built a panel of future senior players. As always, questions have to be asked about how smart our underage setups are.

A lot of people to blame here:
1. GAA for not having the 4th official deal with this. What else does he do???
2. Management and Officials for letting this happen. General disorganisation all year by all reports.
3. County Board for bowing to the GAA again with no fight. No brains or balls in there clearly.

We need get over it as a team now and blow Armagh away. Get at them early. They won't have the stomach for it as they know their year should be over. No player wants to win this way.

I'm sure Armagh will be gunning for this game, a chance of redemption. I'm sure they will convince themselves that they deserve another bite at the cherry. 2 weeks gives them plenty of time to get their heads right. If they win they will forget about Laois fairly quickly.

Imagine if this was Dublin or Cork - would there be a chance in hell that this game would be replayed? Can't believe we are not even putting up a fight.

Clearly the county board have employed all the great legal minds at their disposal and fought this decision viciously like any self respecting county would. They must be exhausted.....

Don't Armagh have to lodge an objection? Wasn't that the case for the Kildare / Offaly subs fiasco many years ago?

They were beaten fairly and squarely. Will be interesting to see if they hide behind a very minor rules infringement and insist on the replay. The 72nd minute substitution had no bearing on the final result whatever.

I think ye should look at the game again and the balls that were pumped in to him. Double and triple marked and balls going 3 foot over his head. He still managed to get his hand on enough ball and scored that nice point at an important time. Not saying he set the world alight but I think people have unrealistic expectations of what one man can do.

I agree, but it takes a year or even years rather than weeks. At least they are acknowledging it. It was far more frustrating during the league to see nothing changing and expecting that results would change.

Does anyone have a sense of how much influence Cunningham has on the development of a system with the team? Is he viewed as having strong expertise here? Would like to think there is a plan in progress but it also possible that the only plan is to keep everyone in our own half and we'll see what happens if we happen to win back possession. Wonder what the players are saying?

Donie is so frustrating. When he's good he's unmarkable but he tries to do too much too often. Maybe
its being captain.

What is he supposed to do? He is being left on his own in the full forward line marked by 2 or 3 lads yet he still seems to be able to win bad balls, turn and find space for a shot. There usually is nobody to break the ball to or no runners within 30 yards. I think he is playing really well and performing heroics. Nothing to do with being captain. We were very very lucky to get over the line on Saturday with such an inept forward system. Compare that to Cavan, Tyrone or Galway over the weekend when there always seemed to be options and everyone knew their job. Imagine if there was a plan in Laois?

Clare have been very impressive this year in the league and should be a real handful. Some strong results this year, especially their showing against Kildare in Div 3 final. We are definitely good enough to win but this will be a battle.

Clare 1-11 - 0-7 Sligo
Tipperary 2-7 - 1-7 Clare
Limerick 0-11 - 1-14 Clare
Clare 1-18 - 0-10 Westmeath
Offaly 0-15 - 1-11 Clare
Clare 1-20 - 1-9 Longford
Kildare 0-22 - 1-14 Clare

Div 3 Final:
Clare 2-17 – 1-19 Kildare

Worst possible draw!! Clare are hurting badly after the manner in which Waterford beat them and a bit like in 2013, they will be absolutely gunning for a huge victory at home, and will be ruthless. We will have to hurl the game of our lives to keep things close. Not that there were any easy draws but this is going to be tough.

Great that we won and was better defensively. Absolutely shockingly poor going forward. Armagh were spectacularly poor. We were slightly better.