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I am amazed to see that top ten, What's happening in Mountmellick, stradbally and mountrath if rural areas are ahead of them ?

Good win for the minors. Next day against Meath will probably give us a better idea on how good they are but there was a bit of size and pace to the team. These are the sort of players we have to get right if we are to progress at all

Dosent look like Chris Conway will manage a Laois inter county anytime soon from his latest interview. Also maybe a harsh dig at Portlaoise CBS not in the A grades?

Didn't think he was too harsh with CBS Portlaoise. Definitely should be pushing more towards the A long term if it meant bringing up the standards of football across the board. Even winning in the B would be a start.

In the school in the 80's-90's, always B grade in both codes. I don't know where they are now. Main rivals were ballyfin who I think reached the B hurling final in 92 and won in 1993 in Leinster. They had both john Lyons and the cuddy twins plus boarders David bourke who hurled league with tipp and Ronan Mooney who played Offaly in football for years but was a good hurler. I don't think ballyfin even won the B football at that time and they would have had a massive pick including Willie Kirby who won a senior with Kerry at midfield.

Ok I am starting to ramble......
900 odd boys in the CBS

A school that's completely underperforming in both codes

A microcosm of where juvenile gaa stands in the county

Niall Corcoran joins Davy Fitz in Wexford

Sean Dempsey to Ballinteer St. John's. I think one of the Brennan's is there. Good to see him answering pat gilroy's call for more volunteers in Dublin 😀

Stunned re Cheddar.
Absolutely stunned.
They say you shouldn't go back. Hopefully not the case here.
You'd expect he had a strong bargaining position, and you can be sure he drove a good deal (in terms of resources available etc).

Hopefully it's true.
All wrapped up quickly.

More important is who is actually with him

Enjoyed rickie cashin's interview on laois people. If his comments about secondary school hurling participation in certain schools is true, things won't improve

The facts make awful reading, 3-2 before the water break and 2-20 to 0-5 for the rest of the game. 1-16 alone in the second half and Dublin not even at full steam.  An absolute tanking. Would have thought we might some sort of plan or maybe we did.

well that was some finish to an interview by Eddie Brennan on Woolie's podcast!!, what do people thing.

We seem determined to slow the ball down in attack. The top teams deal with blanket defences by relentless running and attempting to break tackles. We just stop. You can't try to run through a blanket but you can at least get a little closer, draw them in and create space. The running from deep and the forward movement is fairly non existent and it seems that even if there isn't a blanket defence we give the opposition time to organize one by passing side to side. Not going to be fixed in the next week but needs to be a focus for 2021 if we want to stay in Div. 2. We don't have many marquee players these days but the way we play can compensate for that in some way.

its a killer seeing some one with pace like Dillon turning back with the ball when he has a ten yards on a defender. we probably lack a genuine mobile midfielder to get ahead of the play in the forward line. the foot passing is also a big problem, bar paul Kingston. as for forward movement hopefully sean moore gets a run next year.

fair points, it was a battling performance much like the Fermanagh game and they seemed to have run out of steam near the end. Again the scoring rate wasn't the highest by us but bar a few wild shots the conversion rate is not bad. Once again blighted by a very slow start. it appeared that we started with the usual formation of an inside two , with Kingston junior floating and both lowry and barry occupying the wings. After that we seemed to be flooding the middle third with both Dillon and byrne following their men. for long periods, this structure was a mess between loosing kickouts and what appeared to be a real lack of pace down the sides. the space in front of our full back line was exploited by this and we were under pressure there for long periods. Timmons got on top but we still were giving up chances which Corbett saved the game with.

the substitutions made a big difference. o Flynn made a big difference on his wing and it looked like Piggott moved back towards the middle when o Sullivan came on, but the half back line with Dillon providing cover finished far better. Felt sorry for Lacey as his man was dropping off and stuck with neither an option to follower him or drop off. his man was on a lot of ball. Keogh again made a difference on the wing when he came on, this might have been made easier with the game breaking up but he was far better than both lowry and barry who were very poor.

you would hope the next day that lillis comes back in to try get some ball around midfield. reilly is a willing runner and will probably go to the wing. the foot passing will have to be better, there were some shocking efforts which gave up possession at times. its hard enough playing in a two man forward line with out horrible passes going in. on that, we didn't get gary into the game and evan served up his usual fare of been sublime, dangerous and then ridiculous. while he will always be a target of hits, but he will have to stop this rolling around. if he was 100 percent on the game he could do damage. I would love to see them have a cut next week in that they play to get some goals. anything is a bonus now.

Sunday game brushing over the penalty incident and the last minute free. Wouldn't be like them to under analyse a game.

once again Paddy Purcell taken out be a black card foul

Is Brody gone from the panel..?

I think since one of the challenge gamesmanship

Could concede a very big score here

We are in bother now