Laois U20 Championship

[Laoiseabu]

Anyone at matches over the weekend ?? Is last 4 set in store I presume it's Portlaoise O Dempsey's Portarlington and Courtwood. Ballyroan must be disappointed I see they only lost to courtwood by a point. Are Portlaoise favourites for this or would Portarlington be

I'd imagine Ballyroan are fairly disappointed. The first day out I think they had to play with 14 players because their minors were playing in the county final. Now they only lost to Courtwood by a point.

I'd expect Courtwood to beat O'Dempsey's. The other semi could be a good game. I'll go with Portlaoise to edge it.

Why does everyone call them Courtwood ?😂😂😂 it's courtwood/Emo . Is there some Emo lads not commiting or what ?

[The PRO]

Anyone at matches over the weekend ?? Is last 4 set in store I presume it's Portlaoise O Dempsey's Portarlington and Courtwood. Ballyroan must be disappointed I see they only lost to courtwood by a point. Are Portlaoise favourites for this or would Portarlington be

I'd imagine Ballyroan are fairly disappointed. The first day out I think they had to play with 14 players because their minors were playing in the county final. Now they only lost to Courtwood by a point.

I'd expect Courtwood to beat O'Dempsey's. The other semi could be a good game. I'll go with Portlaoise to edge it.

Why does everyone call them Courtwood ?😂😂😂 it's courtwood/Emo . Is there some Emo lads not commiting or what ?

😄 I gave them their full title above anyway!! Courtwood Emo in under 20 and Emo Courtwood in under 17 is how it's arranged.

[Jd]

Apologies just keeping it short. Think I may have referred to O Dempsey's as o Ds before and Stradbally parish gaels as Stradbally and even the minor team as Emo so obviously no offense intended

[Jd]

Took a stroll up to the mill field on Saturday . Courtwood Emo made bits of O Dempsey's I half expected a competitive match but this was terrible ce took off half their team at half time  or just after but the match was over after 20 mins. Port v Portlaoise should be a tight affair with I think port just shading it. Haven't seen Portlaoise but they have a few lads with senior medals in their pockets so won't be too bad

[Neutralobserver]

no surprise to see courtwood emo here in the final as we did predict them strong from the start. i fancy them to go on a win it now. it would be a good year for them if they did and also the future is bright following their minor success.

both them and rosenallis with the quality of young players are ones to watch for the future

[SCFC]

both them and rosenallis with the quality of young players are ones to watch for the future

Port and Ballyroan Abbey too.

[Laoiseabu]

both them and rosenallis with the quality of young players are ones to watch for the future

Port and Ballyroan Abbey too.

And St Joseph's 😊

[The PRO]

I was at the B semi final last night. Not a bad game. Clonaslee won handy in the end but Na Fianna Og missed a few brilliant goal chances so it could have been a lot different.
Doesn't bode well for Crettyard, Barrowhouse and the two Arles teams that they only had 17 players between them and got beaten by a standalone intermediate club.
Not too many standout players to be honest. Centre forward for NFO was very good but had no help.

[Silkyskillssunshinee]

I was at the B semi final last night. Not a bad game. Clonaslee won handy in the end but Na Fianna Og missed a few brilliant goal chances so it could have been a lot different.
Doesn't bode well for Crettyard, Barrowhouse and the two Arles teams that they only had 17 players between them and got beaten by a standalone intermediate club.
Not too many standout players to be honest. Centre forward for NFO was very good but had no help.

It will certainly be difficult for the two Arles clubs to survive much longer at Senior level anyway. Clonaslee on the other hand will probably go in as favourites to win the Intermediate next year.

[Jd]

Has the other A semi been down payed yet

[SCFC]

Has the other A semi been down payed yet

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[Jd]

WOW typo alert
Has the other A semi final been played yet it was down for Wednesday but a lot of stuff was called off due to weather alert

[Silkyskillssunshinee]

WOW typo alert
Has the other A semi final been played yet it was down for Wednesday but a lot of stuff was called off due to weather alert

It's down to be played the day after the Portlaoise Seniors play in Leinster. Can't imagine Portlaoise must be too happy with the arrangement.

[Neutralobserver]

Any more developments on the rumour that started around here that Eddie Kinsella is new U-20 manager? If it's true I think that it is a solid appointment. Kinsella was involved with St Paul's for many years and would know the underage scene well.

He's also helped a talented crop of Courtwood youngsters develop into potential inter-county footballers, with Niall Dunne being the prime example.

kinsella was a surprise choice for me here, won only an intermediate with courtwood but has a serious panel of young players to choose from, jsut winning 1 title with a team like that does not make you an intercounty manager, same with rosenallis, great crop of young players but you dont have to be the greatest manager to win with them as they won both hurling and football because of the players, clonaslee a few years back had a great bunch of players and they won both grades with the same manager over both codes, portlaoise over the past 10-15 years could have brough any1 in to manage them and they would have won laois senior due to the quality of the players.

ill be shot for mentioning soccer here but pep over man city or klopp over liverpool is easy coach, what about a pep or klopp over norwich, would they win, no because they dont have the quality of player

same with clancy gone back to ballyroan abbey, relegation play off from intermediate with timahoe this year and now back trying to coach seniors, no sense in it apart from money

we need to look at the bigger picture when appointing coaches and not just base it on a guy that wins a title with a very good crop of young players.

[Blow-in]

And the award for the greatest load of nonsense goes too........