The future of laois hurling

[merman]

In fairness Merman I don't think there are many hurling people in Laois (if any) who would want anything but success for a Laois minor team.

I'm sure that's true but there will be knives out if this team underperform....which is a ridiculous sentence to write about a minor hurling team.

[clonadmad]

An absolute shambles of a streaming effort,constantly stalling and breaking down

Not worth the fiver

[Keyser Söze]

Mine has been excellent quality? Way better than any of Laois TV ones so far. Could just be internet provider?

[Keyser Söze]

Very hard to see a win from here. Def going to need a goal given the scoring rate so far

[clonadmad]

Mine has been excellent quality? Way better than any of Laois TV ones so far. Could just be internet provider?

Back on track now,don't know what it was

[clonadmad]

Bet by double scores

Another false dawn

[SpeculativeEffort]

Hugely disappointing. Laois just never got going. Offaly played some lovely hurling with Carey,egan and Quinn the main threats for them. We struggled to win ball and create space. At times with our running we crowded out our own players. A half back ran in first half, lost the ball and offaly played low ball thru the missing hb position for a point. That summed it up for me.

[merman]

Offaly full-value for their win. Poor performance.

[Keyser Söze]

You couldn't buy think back to the 90s & early 00s when Laois underage teams would be considered highly rated but year after year seemed to fall flat against Offaly.

[redsetanta]

Disaster of a result. As soon as we talk a team up they're k ocked back. Will be classed as a poor year. Derek McGrath migh leave that one off his cv.

[merman]

We certainly don't handle expectation well.
Offaly relish knocking us down a peg or two.
And that's not a slight on Offaly who played by far the better hurling.

[Spiritof1915]

I said it before and ill say it again. When will the county board realise that parents with young lads on the team and over county teams/development squads is a complete disaster.  We need to be looking at fresh former players or people with the profile of derek mcgrath who have no club bias or agendas behind them. I know it didnt affect the game today but the last 4 years have ultimately been brutal with the talent available. The talent is there in laois but needs proper development. Not sold to the highest bidder as was the case this year.
This years manager left out 2 of the best prosects that i know off over personal squabbles or vendettas. Would that happen in any other serious hurling county.
Young stephen murphy from The harps was the best full back by a country mile in this years club championship and marked offaly danger man Luke carey off the field i believe in a leinster final for johnstown against birr earlier this year. But because he left the panel at u14 of his own accord the laois manager refused to put him on the panel this year.

[The Rover]

No.1to 15 Offaly put in a better performance.
our have back line could not in any 50/50 ball.
forwards persisted in trying to run trough the Offaly defense all the time.
free taking was very poor compared to Offaly.
when you come up against a team you have to win the majority of 50/50 tussles we were completely dominated all over the field
and looked like a tired team bereft of ideas and drive.
very very disappointing result for a team that went intothe championship with such high expectations.

[mountrath1]

It's unfair at these times to place the blame on management or players. They tried to work to a system that unfortunately needed huge time to develop and unfortunately with covid the time to develop this was hindered. My one negative value would lie with our county board. To put the development of players with quality into the hands of (leaving d McGrath out of this) coaches Dunne and Quinlan. Sorry no track record, never worked underneath someone of stature or quality to learn from. A morale victory in a shield competition 2yrs ago doesn't make them the best people to oversee these players. No strength and conditioning coach in place, nó long term development plan in place. Where is the future for these players now. The county board need to analyse there future selections better and at least make sure those in place have knowledge and a good track record

[Keyser Söze]

Unfair to blame management....and then....!!
Were you looking for a job Mountrath? Not good to hear that they had no S&C coach, most unusual if true?
At the same time there are S&C guys who seem to want to be involved with every team in the county at the same time, that's not good either.