Serious decline in Laois Gaa

[The infidel in exile]

Hello all, due to some opinions from you, iv restarted the poll from today, running for 21 days, and four votes per person. Thanks for the feedback

[The infidel in exile]

Voting going well, two suggestions have most votes, will keep you updated but I won't mention the popular suggestions until Voting is over. Thanks for the first four contributions

[The infidel in exile]

Just to quickly give an update, in the lead is better infrastructure for winter training for hurlers and footballers as many seem bewildered that the County has ONLY ONE ALL WEATHER PITCH, and that is down to haywood school not the County board

[The infidel in exile]

10 people have voted so far, neck and neck between options 2 and 6. Thank you men

[The infidel in exile]

After 13 people voting, option 4, regarding the fact that Laois has ONE ALL WEATHER pitch in the Count  which I have been told that it is booked out in advance.  Obviously some people are rather bewildered that the County board forgot about Irish winters. When building the C.O.E.. Also many votes have agreed with the idea of bringing in our best minor and u20 Gaa teams to have more involvement with the senior teams, thus keeping them involved due the 3 year break between minor and up 20

[The infidel in exile]

Sorry Players not teams, training with the seniors

[Voice of tReason]

Sorry Players not teams, training with the seniors

A minor player training with the senior county team....whilst still not allowed hurl with his own adult club team...
And remember players straight out of minor aren't eligible to hurl inter-county.

Nobody actually believes this is a good idea. U20s yes. If they're up to the level.

[Laois345]

County board clean out is not an option but something that is badly needed.

[The infidel in exile]

Thank you Voice, I Truly didn't know about the Minor situation, so I appreciate you telling me.

I don't see any issue with our best 19 and 20 year old added to an extended panel, not taking away from their own management. But coming in and training with our senior hurlers and footballers, would help them massively in practice training matches. Iv seen to many young players lose interest in the game for a host of reasons.

[The infidel in exile]

Thank you all for voting, 17 people have voted so far, from hurling and football. Options 1 and 4, are out in front with Options 5 in third, but unless something massively changes in the voting, it will be either Options 1 or 4, as only 1 vote separates them. It seems to be abundantly clear that the fans who voted, are upset that ex laois hurlers and footballers are not employed to work with schools and Clubs at underage level.

Also it is blatantly obvious that when the powers that be, put serious money into the C.O.E, They were clueless as unlike other countries, the failed to have one of the pitches an All weather pitch. I only done this to gauge how many of you felt, but I'm humbled by just how many voted, its strange as I only added the option to 4 votes, as a fellow patriot told me that 2 votes was not enough per person, yet 60% of you only voted on two options. Finally, every option has received votes. With the least votes going to the county board option. I may have unfortunately penned the option wrong, or people are so disinterested in the annual beauty contest, that they don't care. Thank you everyone and I lastly want to state my humility and gratitude to all, as their are a lot of people on this platform that are very clever people.

[The infidel in exile]

Hello all, again I wish to thank the 18 people who voted. I'm going to close the voting this night week, and you all can see how it all went, I shall write an email on your behalf, to the County board, thus giving them your feedback on the current state of Laois GAa.

Will the listen? Probably not, but I feel it incumbent on myself to give every individual who voted a voice. On that I promise

[Verbal]

In fairness, the COE was completed, and has been continuously improved, without placing any major strain financially onto the clubs.

That wasn't the case in the past here, and isn't the case currently around the country elsewhere.

[The PRO]

The COE is a great set up. Third pitch probably needs to be upgraded but the other two pitches are very good, pretty much playable all year round.
The surface in OMP is actually much poorer than either.

[The infidel in exile]

For anyone who hasn't voted, geymt your votes in as option 1 and 4 are only separated by two votes. I'm closing down the votes on Wednesday 2nd July. thanks to the 19 people how voted

[BobbyBoucherJr]

There will be 2 all weather pitches in the county in 2 years time when the development in portlaoise GAA is completed. Portlaoise will also have an indoor arena almost the size of a full pitch.