The Future for Laois Football

[Saint88]

I'd jump at Murphy if he was interested. With a good back room team.

[BallyroanAbbey]

Would find it hard to see Murphy being interested tbh, I know he had success with Portarlington but long term the player profile in Offaly seems more attractive as does the background/ county board set up, plus Offaly being his own county would be a reason to manage them in itself so if he was leaving them he'd hardly move to Laois straight away

Sugrue  is the obvious choice but to be honest I'd rather he was more over structures within the county, still I'd rather him involved in any way than not at all

Eddie Kinsella seems to be the name getting thrown around

[thegreeenandgold]

Eddie Kinsella Jesus

[BallyroanAbbey]

Eddie Kinsella Jesus

What's the alternatives?

Lar Wall if you could convince him to come from Meath
Billy O'Loughlin has managed Longford (and relegated Laois) was over the u20s in 19 that made Leinster final

Ideally you'd want a Laois man but options are very thin on the ground from within

[High Fielder]

Zero options and zero expectations. It's actually a perfect job to get for a coach, if they believe they could do something with the players we have available. We weren't a million miles off getting promoted and the widely held view was that anyone would be better than Billy. I honestly don't believe we have anyone who deserves it, but good luck to anyone who puts their hat in the ring

[Zooming around]

Eddie Kinsella Jesus

Never heard of him.
Is he any relation of Gabriel Jesus that plays with Arsenal?

[Junior Ex Laoistalk]

Eddie Kinsella Jesus

Never heard of him.
Is he any relation of Gabriel Jesus that plays with Arsenal?

No, you're thinking of Christ Jesus, Gabriels uncle. Come to think of it that's really who we need now ...

[The Saint]

I'd say we should go after all three of them... Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

[bluespower]

Donald Trump is the man that would make Laois great again. 

[Laoiseabu]

Donald Trump is the man that would make Laois great again. 

Judging by the standard of the senior championship matches last weekend not even God almighty can save us let alone Trump , Mary , Joseph , Jesus , Kinsella , Martin Murphy and whoever else's name gets linked to the managerial vacancy

[SpeculativeEffort]

Donald Trump is the man that would make Laois great again. 

Judging by the standard of the senior championship matches last weekend not even God almighty can save us let alone Trump , Mary , Joseph , Jesus , Kinsella , Martin Murphy and whoever else's name gets linked to the managerial vacancy

This kind of negative, hopeless commentary must stop. With a good set up and the best 30/40 players fully committed to Laois football then we could progress to div 3 or maybe 2. People making doomsday statements only serves to make our county football team less attractive to management and players.

We know where we are. It's not good but it's definitely salvageable.

[High Fielder]

Donald Trump is the man that would make Laois great again. 

Judging by the standard of the senior championship matches last weekend not even God almighty can save us let alone Trump , Mary , Joseph , Jesus , Kinsella , Martin Murphy and whoever else's name gets linked to the managerial vacancy

This kind of negative, hopeless commentary must stop. With a good set up and the best 30/40 players fully committed to Laois football then we could progress to div 3 or maybe 2. People making doomsday statements only serves to make our county football team less attractive to management and players.

We know where we are. It's not good but it's definitely salvageable.

This kind of head in the sand, hope over expectation and plain ignorance towards the reality is what really has to stop. If I sit here and say my prayers, wish really hard and buy the chocolate bar with the gold ticket, Laois just might get into Division 2 and lose to Dublin by 10 points. Monaghan can do it. Maybe we can too. The initial poster was right. Our local Championship is rubbish

[Blow-in]

Less than 3 current Laois senior panel members stood out in round 1 of the championship. It's easy see how the county team is at such a low level

[The Boy Wonder]

Donald Trump is the man that would make Laois great again. 

Judging by the standard of the senior championship matches last weekend not even God almighty can save us let alone Trump , Mary , Joseph , Jesus , Kinsella , Martin Murphy and whoever else's name gets linked to the managerial vacancy

This kind of negative, hopeless commentary must stop. With a good set up and the best 30/40 players fully committed to Laois football then we could progress to div 3 or maybe 2. People making doomsday statements only serves to make our county football team less attractive to management and players.

We know where we are. It's not good but it's definitely salvageable.

Good post SpeculativeEffort - I couldn't agree more.
I can't understand why posters would come on here to pile on the doom and gloom - it's helps nobody.
We all know Laois GAA is in a bad place at the moment.

[The Boy Wonder]

No Laois supporter should be termed delusional if he believes, as I do, that the following modest targets are achievable by our senior footballers :
- promotion to Division 3 in next 1-2 years
- promotion to Division 2 in following 2-3 years
- winning the Tailteann Cup within the next 5 years.

Obviously a huge effort would have to be made at underage to achieve some success at Minor and Under-20 level that might someday lead to Laois being competitive in the Sam Maguire championship.