The future of laois hurling

[tippmaninlaois]

Everyone are entitled to opinions. That's the reason it's a forum. In terms of the game itself, birr were the better team in the first half creating some good goal chances. You still have to take them and unfortunately they didn't. Brochan o reilly was very much to the fore there.
To say tho mountrath ran out of ideas and steam I think your a small bit off course there.
Il give you a heads up in that area
Mountrath Cs very much dealt a huge blow with the unavailability of Kevin Byrne from centre back and Aaron Phelan who at the start of the year took up an apprenticeship. 2 serious underage County players.
Having to move a young lad like Tom Cuddy (16yrs) into a pivotal position and move a scoring threat like C Mckelvey back into a defensive position takes away a scoring threat. The grade itself is actually u19. Of the age Mountrath had 1, Birr had a few more. Of the starting 15 for mountrath, 8 are still there next year. The junior squad at the moment are still competing in leinster championship (semi final stage)
So to answer your ran out of ideas element. They moved to one up top, to crowding out middle to stop birr running game in 2nd half nullified it to an extent. The goal birr got was fortunate to say the least.. Communication was not efficient at that point to shepherd ball over line, but instead came free and a forward was found loose inside. Prior to this goal, mountrath had 2 poor wides when a draw and a very scorable goal chance.
Overall I'd say it was a very enjoyable game.

Is the B grade not u19.5?, the same as A schools hurling

Birr had lads out hurt as wel,in case you didn't know

Ye can complain all ye want about injuries,the reality is that ye had very little depth to the overall squad when ye had to bring in an u15

Birr much the better outfit

[Laois man]

This form is a chat about Laois hurling not about running down laois hurling. I was at the Schools game birr the better team and got goals at the right time. Birr should focus on the final now instead of coming on here running down Mrath Schools hurling. I think offaly hurling has enough problems of there own. And best of luck to birr in the final i hope they win it out and as a gaa I will be attending it👍

[tippmaninlaois]

This form is a chat about Laois hurling not about running down laois hurling. I was at the Schools game birr the better team and got goals at the right time. Birr should focus on the final now instead of coming on here running down Mrath Schools hurling. I think offaly hurling has enough problems of there own. And best of luck to birr in the final i hope they win it out and as a gaa I will be attending it👍

Takes the high moral ground about "running down" Laois Hurling and then in the next sentence runs down Offaly hurling with a "they have enough problems of their own jibe"

Remarkable

[Laois man]

I said offaly has problems where did I run them down.

[Smellyball]

I said offaly has problems where did I run them down.

Don't bother interacting with him Laois man. That bellend was on a few weeks ago arguing Tipp have a richer recent football tradition than Laois , sure they're flying in the league alright 👍 👌

[Zooming around]

Is it true the Minors beat Kilkenny yesterday?

[Spiritof1915]

Is it true the Minors beat Kilkenny yesterday?

Beaten by about 2 points in the end. I reckon near enough full strength on both sides with the exception of 1 or 2 prominent players. Derek Mc grath very vocal on sideline. Hopefully we have a better performance this year than the calamities of the previous two

[clonadmad]

Is it true the Minors beat Kilkenny yesterday?

Beaten by about 2 points in the end. I reckon near enough full strength on both sides with the exception of 1 or 2 prominent players. Derek Mc grath very vocal on sideline. Hopefully we have a better performance this year than the calamities of the previous two

Were the Kierans crew involved?

They have one fine corner forward playing with the school who would be probably their best inter county forward also.

[Spiritof1915]

Is it true the Minors beat Kilkenny yesterday?

Beaten by about 2 points in the end. I reckon near enough full strength on both sides with the exception of 1 or 2 prominent players. Derek Mc grath very vocal on sideline. Hopefully we have a better performance this year than the calamities of the previous two

Were the Kierans crew involved?

They have one fine corner forward playing with the school who would be probably their best inter county forward also.

They were missing 3 starters I believe not sure of names although they had a son of Brian 'tots' mcevoy at centre forward who looks a good prospect.
Limerick gave kilkenny a serious trimming the week before so talking to a kk connection there not expecting much from their Minors thus year. In fact there's alarm bells ringing down there about the quality they've been producing over the last few years.
Still for laois to be competing with them at any grade is a positive.
I believe laois Minors have beaten wexford and possibly Claire over the last few weeks. Only practice games but still the right practice games to be playing

[Laois man]

Is his name Harry Shine?

[blueandwhite1]

For years you would hear of Laois beating KK in practice matches at minor level only to find out later that it was an experimental KK south or something which bore zero resemblance to their championship team that would beat us by 30 points. Hopefully this isn't the case this year but sounds like it is not. We don't need a strong minor team every year but would be good to have one every 2-3 years. 

[mcwregor]

did the u20s play carlow in the development league at the weekend or was it postponed? When are they playing again? Any word on how the minors are doing?

[Laois man]

Ye U20s played Carlow Sat won well. I think there playing kildare this weekend at a laois venue. There's a match report from Carlow game on Laois today.

[mcwregor]

 Only see a report for the football on laois today. Throw up the link here if ya wouldn't mind pls

[burdizzo]

Here:
https://www.laoistoday.ie/2022/02/20/laois-get-2022-u-20-hurling-season-up-an-running-with-big-win-away-to-carlow/