Laois Intermediate Football Championship

laoisgaafan24 · July 28, 2024, 08:04:05 PM

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laoisgaafan24 · July 28, 2024, 08:09:47 PM

Intermediate Championship seems as wide open as ever this year . Real feeling that a lot of teams can win it .
Mountmellick lost to Annanough the other night and deservedly so. Paul Lawlor doing great job there by the looks of it they played well structured defensively and caught Mountmellick on the break . However I hear Mountmellick have 3-4 lads from last years starting team away or injured which never helps. I wouldn't write them off yet .

Didn't manage to see other fixtures but Park ratheniska got first win as expected and Crettyard won too although maybe not as convincingly as people thought . Evan o Carroll huge loss for them .
Kilcruise winning too shows it's any teams year this year .
Next set of fixtures all very tasty as Portlaoise second team will definitely give a Mountmellick a right game and Annanough likewise could definitely get one over on Park Ratheniska .
Kilcruise and Crettyard set up to be a cracker of a fixture too .
We'll have to wait and see .

SCFC · August 09, 2024, 12:00:13 PM

After Park Ratheniska's easy enough win over Annanough last night, it's hard to see that either Crettyard or Park/Ratheniska won't win this.
Mountmellick could drag themselves back into it I suppose but they have their work cut out to beat Portlaoise's second team.
Arles or Timahoe don't appear to be strong enough.

laoisgaafan24 · August 10, 2024, 10:38:57 AM

Quote from: SCFC on August 09, 2024, 12:00:13 PMAfter Park Ratheniska's easy enough win over Annanough last night, it's hard to see that either Crettyard or Park/Ratheniska won't win this.
Mountmellick could drag themselves back into it I suppose but they have their work cut out to beat Portlaoise's second team.
Arles or Timahoe don't appear to be strong enough.

Mountmellick and Portlaoise game tonight will be interesting gauge of where both teams are at . Mountmellick team will be interesting to see given against Annanough , they seemed to be missing a lot of the players who featured in last years semi final defeat to a full strength Ballylinan.
Portlaoise however being a second team could spring a surprise. They could have a different team/setup to the one that played against crettyard so it is a tough one to judge for tonight .
Speaking of Crettyard , anyone at the game ?
What was the primary difference between them beating Portlaoise by 2 goals and hammering kilcruise by 20 points or so .
Theoretically Portlaoise 2nd team aren't a 14 point better team then Arles on paper. Although Evan kicking 2-8 could be just that difference.
Interesting to find out how this all plays out .

les Antiques · August 14, 2024, 12:31:59 PM

Between Crettyard and Park . Can't see anyone else turning them over .

SCFC · September 04, 2024, 09:12:00 AM

Mountmellick have recovered well from that first round loss.
And they've a chance against PR I think.
Cretty should be too strong for an improved Annanough.
Hard to see it not being PR v Crettyard final though.

Laois Rising · September 16, 2024, 11:55:34 AM

Have Crettyard improved that much this year or is it a case that the other teams in the championship have fallen off. PR are definitely a shadow of the team they were two years ago. Arles-Kilcruise look more akin to a junior side and only for a walkover could well have been in a relegation final. Whoever does get relegated down from senior this year shouldn't have too much bother bouncing straight back up in 2025.

SCFC · September 23, 2024, 01:06:02 PM

Quote from: The boardman on September 16, 2024, 06:08:12 PM
Quote from: Laois Rising on September 16, 2024, 11:55:34 AMHave Crettyard improved that much this year or is it a case that the other teams in the championship have fallen off. PR are definitely a shadow of the team they were two years ago. Arles-Kilcruise look more akin to a junior side and only for a walkover could well have been in a relegation final. Whoever does get relegated down from senior this year shouldn't have too much bother bouncing straight back up in 2025.
Think Crettyard have improved this year but some of the other teams have gone back a bit.
Crettyard probably favourites to win but Mountmellick dont seem to ever have put out their best performance that they are capable of for a full match they were beating portlaoise by 13 points and then let in 3 goals in 5 minutes, they missed a lot of chances in the game against Arles Kilcruise, they beat Park Ratheniska well but should've beaten them by more Park Ratheniska don't seem to be any mirror of the team that beat Mountmellick in the final a few years ago. If Mountmellick put out a good performance in the final and have someone to take on evan o carrol they should have a good chance though, with that being said will be hard with the overlap between the footballers and hurlers and they have a busy few weeks ahead and trying to manage to not get injured.

I just can't see Mountmellick stopping Evan O'Carroll. And even if they do, I still think Crettyard have more quality all around the field.
Park-Ratheniska will be very disappointed. Never raised a gallop against MM. And Annanough will be happy enough. They weren't in the relegation battle and that would have been their number one priority.

Heshs Umpire · September 27, 2024, 10:40:20 AM

No disrespect to Crettyard but it would be good to see senior football back in a big town like Mountmellick. Whichever of them wins it should be well able hold their own at senior.

Laois Rising · September 27, 2024, 12:29:34 PM

We said the same of Ballylinan last year mind and they have been deplorable throughout this year's senior championship. Smaller teams like Crettyard or Mountmellick are only a couple of injuries or absentees due to travelling away from being a team that will really struggle. Park another example of it. They had a fairy tale run a couple of years back but down a couple of players this year and they are a complete shadow of that team which romped to the intermediate title playing a lovely brand of football.

Flamingo · September 27, 2024, 10:12:45 PM

Crettyard 2-12 Mountmellick 0-10 Laois IFC Final Crettyard are the new Laois Shopping Centre Intermediate Football Champions after a hard-earned victory over Mountmellick this evening in O'Moore Park. The game was in the balance until midway through the second half, when a Cormac Murphy-led Crettyard asserted their dominance to win the game and secure their...

Was neck and neck until Crettyard got the goal before halftime, best team won no point saying otherwise Mountmellick started going for goals a bit too early if had just have taken the points and went for goals later might have made it more respectable at least put a bit of doubt in Crettyard.
Only consolation for Mountmellick is that whoever comes down wont be as strong as Crettyard.

Well we will see how Crettyard go on in their Leinster campaign