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Declan Mullaly from O'Dempseys is suppose to be looking for the port job. anyone hear on this wouldn't know much about him.

Managed The Rock a few years ago. Think he was with Nurney in Kildare this year?

Mark Barry and Seamus Lacey going or gone travelling. Won't be around.
Paul Kingston back. Mohan and Galvin in from Portarlington.

Senior football. Best player won the award in Paddy O'Sullivan. Rioghan Murphy and Alex Mohan very good too. Sean O'Flynn was excellent any time I saw him. Mikey Dempsey was good too.

Anthony Rainbow gone from Killeen to Raheens.
Kearns definitely back with O'Dempseys.
Emo and Portarlington both looking for new managers.

Well done to Colin Bailey, referee of the year.
I've seen him a few times and he's definitely one of the better young refs.

Perhaps a different format for next year's championship is needed or simply run it as a straight knockout competition. It's late in the year and if team's feel they have little or no hope of winning then it is inevitable that walkovers are given. The appetite is no longer there to play.

With 8 teams, the format used for the intermediate football championship looks ideal. No dead rubbers guaranteed.

Galvin was excellent for Port. Best game I've seen him play for them ever. He's usually there to win ball, lay it off and link it but rarely scores a lot.
Athy will be a massive ask for them. Kildare club football is exceptionally strong.

Good to see the re structure go through and Senior being reduced to 12 teams. Means I can stop harping on about it on here for the time being at least.

Going to be a lot more "squeaky bum time" for some of the senior teams next year. Three out of the 16 going down next year and three out of 14 the following year!
To be honest, there aren't that many teams in the SFC that you'd consider to be in no danger of going down. Port and Josephs really are the only ones spring to mind for me.

I see Park were beaten over the weekend. I thought they would do well enough in Leinster after watching them this year.

Watched on Clubber. An absolute dog of a day. Neither team really could play football in the conditions.
Park just lacked a bit of firepower. The Louth team weren't much better but the lad Burns from the Louth senior squad was accurate from frees although Richie Hitchcock held him well from play. 

I see some good discussion on the hurling thread about the under 20 championships.

Just interested to hear views on the under 20 football.

The A should be interesting. Looking like SPG, Na Fianna Og and Portlaoise are strong contenders.

Graiguecullen, St Pauls and O'Dempseys should battle out the B.

Old Leighlin were terrible. Only got a few scores near the end when Port were down to 14.
Good result for Port. They have a chance to regroup now and give it a shot against the Louth team.
They should be a lot harder to beat. Sam Mulroy on his own will take some watching.

Have to agree with other posters.
Poor game, probably mostly because of the conditions, and a really poor decision for the penalty which ultimately decided the game.
Courtwood will be disappointed with that but also with the fact that their forwards never clicked on the night mostly because the Port defence was excellent.
Port were poor enough on the night. Hope I'm wrong but hard to see them making an impact in Leinster.

Laois GAA proposal for the new Senior and Intermediate football championship structure

https://laoisgaa.ie/laois-football-championships-proposed-restructure/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNUfopleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHs5sRcdCdkJoD_QfhGQH2lv1WxdLiTp1Aqdk4YJ41XNGRv5xZfNxVLIRuhaz_aem_uJgrmrf13EOsNHa32RqedQ

Looks a well thought out proposal.
Anyone who thinks we should retain 16 senior clubs in Laois football is doting.
However, getting this through is another day's work. A lot of middling senior clubs and most of intermediate clubs might see it as raising the bar too much for them.
But, honestly, what's the point of just hanging on in senior, year in, year out?

Really looking forward to Sunday. Weather permitting, think we might get a cracking final.
I think Camross look very focused and might just edge it.
As the last poster above said, a lot will depend on how CB handle Mossy and Dowling.

On the senior final, bit disappointing to hear the Portarlington manager whinging after the game.
Having watched it back, Colm Murphy wasn't fouled at all that time.
Actually, the biggest decision gotten wrong was the short 45 which Paddy O'Sullivan scored a brilliant point off of. The Port keeper was miles into the other half coming up as he thought to kick the 45 leaving only three back.
If that had been properly spotted, that's a 13 metre free in front of the posts and probably game over.
Think he got the Jason Moore one right under the stand. Yellow card all day long. Never a black or red.
Exciting game but full of mistakes and missed chances/poor shooting. Both teams will feel they kinda left it behind.
Suspect Port will have learned a lot and might edge the replay.