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Laois v London Saturday week in Parnell Park at 3pm .

At least we now won't suffer the embarrassment of finishing in the bottom 5 sides in the country (once we don't mess up to London) and not reach the knock out stages of the Tailteann Cup. Scoring difference could come into play if Cavan beat Offaly. We may still finish second in the group giving us another home game against most likely Wexford/Leitrim, Carlow or New York. If we do finish third we will be away to possibly Antrim/Fermanagh, Longford or Meath/Down. I wouldn't fancy our chances in two of those ties so lets home results go favorably for us in round three of the group stages. If we do not make a quarter final then the county board will have to consider if the Billy Sheehan project is worth committing to for a third year.   

Sheehan won't be involved next year regardless of upcoming results .

Who said anything about celebrating? No one, particularly Laois people, gave us any chance tonight. Fitness cost us in the end, but I still think it was a creditable performance.

It certainly wasn't error free, but the Laois team and management deserve some credit.

Although we threw away a big lead, I saw a Laois team play with great spirit tonight.

I hope they can build on it.

The spirit levels of the team have never been in question. Whether it was against Waterford in the league to last evening in Portlaoise the team have always shown great spirit .

That was an offaly team there for the taking . They are poor enough . They've been through a lot this year in fairness .
The fact we are still struggling with our fitness is baffling though .

Last night was completely replicant of the past 2/3 years and it's clear to see we are making zero progress .

First of all people need to stop mentioning Zoom and Cheddar in relation to been director or head development officer etc etc . They've been asked on more than one occasion and are clearly not interested . They've invested a lot of their time in Laois GAA over the years and they owe us nothing

. The Setanta Hurling programme started last Wednesday in Laois split between the centre of excellence and Clonad . Great numbers in attendance.
There is a football equivalent due to start at end of the month.

Unfortunately the problems in Laois GAA are a lot more complicated than the above .

Pretty typical of our year so far overall . The of use of Doyle was very confusing. Timmons pumped numerous balls into the full forward line in which O'Carroll generally won . Doyle wasn't used apart from maybe one occasion.

I thought that Roche in goals was an improvement. His kick out accuracy was definitely an improvement and made a couple of good saves in the second half .
Forwards blow too hot and cold as has been the way for a good while now .

It's clear to see our fitness and stamina is at a division 4 level . We were out on our feet after 40 mins again. Got a second wind with 5 mins left when the match was over .

Dismal crowd from Laois in attendance . Saying that probably only about 800 present after the exodus of Kildare and Sligo fans .

the team looks to have undergone serious surgery if the rumours are to be believed, does anybody know how the challenge matches went for the supposed radical changes?

Heard the opposite while at the Stradbally and Port match earlier .

Division 1 :

St Joseph 1-14
Portlaoise 0-13

Ballyroan 5- 12
Killeshin 1-14

Stradbally 0-10
Portarlington 2-12

O'Dempseys 0-13
Graiguecullen 0-9






Division 2 :

The Heath 2-16
Park 2-10

Emo 1-9
Rosenallis 0-10

Clonaslee 2-13
Ballylinan 2-11

Courtwood 2-12
Ballyfin 1-15

Ah it's fecking heartbreaking for those young lads . Imagine going home to tell the family about representing the county and the scoreboard had to be turned off because they were getting beaten out the door .
Absolute bullshit organisational set ups with severely inadequate coaching in place . It's the ultimately the kids who are losing out here in Laois .

Offaly make 12 make changes against Carlow Saturday . Had to be expected in fairness .

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Tipp played only u16's against us,after 20 odd minutes, the scoreboard was putting up Tipp goals as points and at half time they turned off the scoreboard completely in Cashel, the scoreline was way worse than what was officially given



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I heard that last week and genuinely couldn't believe it . Demoralising to hear .

Same 15 as normal . No u20s on the panel . Thought 1 or 2 may have made the panel Saturday. Heard a few are heading Stateside for the summer .

Shanahan and Jackman won't be on the line again this weekend after the hearing tonight . They were found to have breached Riail 7.2 (c), Category II (a), T.O. 2023, that is to say, "Abusive language towards a referee.


The Central Hearings Committee imposed the following penalty:

The pair were both handed a four weeks' suspension together with a one match suspension in the same code and at the same level, applicable to the next game in the combination of National League/Inter-County Senior Championship, even if that game occurs in the following year

Offaly can effectively play a second string team against Carlow next week after todays results . They more than likely will particularly if they are playing Carlow in the final two weeks after that .
A wasted year for the our hurlers . I think yesterday against Kildare summed it all up and how something is amiss this year .

Baffling that with two games left in the JMC that there is absolutely nothing settled about the starting 15 except the goalkeeping position .

Amidst all the doom and gloom lets not forget that the mighty Kilkenny almost beat our AI winning minor team back in the day.

"If my Aunt had balls she'd be my Uncle, but she doesn't, so she's not"