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What's the thoughts on the Super 8 idea lads? Laois voting in favour?

Another great minor team https://youtu.be/8tRjzO2n1bI

Our minors weren't too bad in 03 too https://youtu.be/mjxYJHjWoWI

Begley, O'Laughlin, Quigley, O'Carroll, Timmons, O'Connor, Walsh all missing, Armagh team with Jamie Clarke back, playing away from home and everyone had written them off. Congratulations to all involved, great character from all and hopefully this is the springboard to a great year. Roll on Tipp. Laois abu!!

What structures have Monaghan in place that has them successful?

Laois problem is the county is split 50/50 in terms of football and hurling and on top of that half the population is in Portlaoise and there's only 1 club there

We have some great footballers but they all need to up the work rate. What makes Kilkenny hurlers and Dublin footballers so good is the work rate they all put in. Last Saturday against Louth wasnt good enough and unless the intensity is raised 20-30% we're in for a bad afternoon in Armagh.

Last night was very bad and although we were missing the spine of the team a few things were just not good enough

1) Tackling - How many times did Louth take a short kick out, handpass it down to the Laois 40m line without a Laois player tackling? Even with so many key men missing , Laois should be making it hard for teams. Creedon should have went full course press on the kick outs. Conceeding 2-16 at home is shocking. Do Laois have a defence coach?

2) Fitness - Again I know it's early days but Louth should not have a superior fitness level than Laois. You can bet Armagh will be another level up which is a big worry

3) Attack - no pace in our attacks let Louth double up on Donie and resulted in Laois having to take lot shots from out the field. Must have had 15 wides. We need to get Donie on the ball in good positions which I think happened twice. Creedon needs to sort out an attacking plan quickly.

No point slating lads after one game but having the right structures in place so we're competitive is what we want especially missing so many key men

MJ Tierney back?

It all comes down to the culture. For urban areas to promote football they need to create nurseries for kids at an early like they do in the Dublin clubs.

They also have to get coaches to go to the schools and set up some sort of partnership with the local clubs.

Do the GAMES development officers go to the schools?

Where did they play Clare? Did they play a match during the week too?

What's the thoughts on Duffys proposals? My tuppence worth

1) Round robin at quarter final series - against it. GAA ploy to increase revenue to counteract fall in attendances. Also increases number of games in an already condensed calender

2) Bring All Ireland final forward - agree.

3) Extra time instead of replays - agree

Did he mention anything about hurling championship?

Any flash backs to Saturday night Unlaoised to tell you where the matches are on??

U21s playing Limerick tomorrow night so presume isn't on then

Laois playing Cork this week?

With all the talk of how we can improve the game i.e. introducing the Mark, it got me thinking of what I would like to see change

1) Awarding of 2 points for a point scored outside 45m line. This would encourage the actual kicking of a point and would counter the blanket defence.
2) For underage up to u14 or maybe u16 I would like to see the player fouled take the free similar to the basketball concept.

Anyone else have any ideas or they happy with the current game?

Where is that on in Tipp?