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Zero disrespect intended, I promise you. They can only get their act together and beat whatever is put in front of them. And they are doing that whilst simultaneously improving everything in their clubs. Nothing but the height of respect for that. I would love nothing more than to see Courtwood win a Championship too and whilst I think they won't, I'd love to be proved wrong

The teams that are winning it are half decent, but no more than that. All due respect to the others, particularly Courtwood, but they'd likely get smoked outside of Laois. The standard is poor and has been for many years. A team like Port or Portlaoise in previous years can't disguise that

What does that prove exactly? You could say the same about Louth but again it's a hard one to break. You don't come out of Louth, Meath or Kildare easily. A half decent team could crack Laois handily enough

Challenge match? Ah come on. Josephs were awful yesterday, and I stand by what I said. Meath and Kildare are notoriously difficult to get out of. I'd only consider Port good enough to compete properly in either

If they are, nobody appears to be listening. It is of course a great achievement by Courtwood, but let's not kid ourselves here, the standard is unbelievably bad. Outside of Portarlington, I have a feeling that the rest of our teams wouldn't be mapped in Kildare, Meath and Dublin. The vast majority probably wouldn't be Senior

In and of itself I wouldn't disagree. But it isn't in and of itself. The amalgamation is already in place, hence the lack of resources. A sad situation that I'm sure makes sense to those involved. To most it just looks pointless, and limits opportunities for those coming through

I thought it was about a field, but I stand corrected. The details are unimportant really. The future is all that matters. They play together at underage where differences are put aside. So the people who can't stand the sight of each other drop their kids to training to play on the same team. Make it make sense

All 3 of those clubs are massive under achievers. I'm not diminishing what either Arles club has achieved. I'm just saying it was a short term strategy that will inevitably fail in the long term. Seems ironic that someone with a tag of BallyroanAbbey is lauding 2 clubs who should probably be together, and are at Underage level. It's a numbers game in the long term as we know all too well in Laois

Isn't that exactly what causes these splits though Joey? Some bright spark looks around and says hold on, we can go it alone. Fast forward a few years and they'll be nowhere near Senior because they're no more than a space on the road between bigger towns. I'm all for encouraging youngsters to play, but such splits are a curse. There are lads playing football in those clubs who really should be retired. No offence to them

Another year, another Graigue meltdown. They must have an entry in the Thesaurus under meltdown at this stage. God help us all when they get their shit together

Any youngster in that area plays their football with Na Fianna Og. They go their separate ways when they reach adult grade. Common sense is telling them what to do next, but petty rivalry holds them back. If you threw them all together with Ballylinan and Barrowhouse, you'd just about have a football club. Doing Joseph's work for them year after year

You are. The only debate this county should be having is how we break Portlaoise dominance. It has to be (potentially at least) one of the biggest clubs in the country. It is massively under achieving. I have often blamed the CB for their lack of interest, but truth be told, it's not run as well as clubs much smaller in size. It's sad. And it's wasteful. A large chunk of the Laois population lives within its catchment. If they don't function correctly,we're already playing catch up. And they are not functioning correctly

Imagine a team that produced  players like Tom and Noel Prendergast Colm and Gerry Browne Atch Whelan the Fitzgeralds The Mc Nultys  the Bohanes could only score 4 points in over 50 minutes of football in a championship match and a population of over 30 thousand people the mind boggles

Until serious action is taken in that club, either internally or otherwise, Laois football sinks further

Give over with the drive change from within line. It's a closed shop and always has been. It's sickening. They have presided over the worst period in Laois GAA and still they hold on. The County needs leaders and fresh ideas; not sheep

I was surprised a poster asked about missing players. That sort of turnover is crazy. I couldn't guarantee they would improve our fortunes, but we can't keep operating a revolving door and expect improvement. There's nothing there for these lads. It's a depressing state of affairs and the CB are lucky there is zero interest anymore in what goes on inside the gates of OMP. There is no way this situation would be tolerated in any serious footballing or hurling county. We're a laughing stock