Laois SFC 2025

[Laois Rising]

The fact is the standard of Laois football has been poor for a very long time now. The best players in the county hover between division 3 and division 4 of the national league standard wise. The weakness of our championship is laid bare in the fact that Port are the only half decent club side we have at the moment. Joseph's are solid, Portlaoise are clawing their way back, Graige are and will always be Graige while Stradbally seem to only get their act together once in every 6/7 years. We've had Emo, Killeshin make fairytale runs and perform well in county finals but they have proved one off occasions with those teams returning to the pack the following years.

The difference in standard between this Port side and the all conquering Portlaoise side of 10-15 years ago was that when Portlaoise stepped into Leinster they were always there or there abouts. Possibly threw away a couple of Leinster titles. This Port team is not near that standard and have taken some bad beatings in Leinster. A reflection of where Laois football is currently at. 

[Heshs Umpire]

Well, feels like a missed opportunity for us. Going to be a tall order to win 4 or 5 games again in the SFC to get back to a final. Think there's 5, 6, 7 teams will all fancy their chances next year.

Congrats to Port. Their experience of winning it before maybe just edged it. Hope they go well in Leinster although word is they'll be down a few from last weekend's team.

Fair to say the replay never lived up to the expectations after the draw but the conditions were very difficult. As someone said, extra time the first day would have been preferable.

Very proud of our lads. They gave us a few very enjoyable Sunday evenings this year!🙂 Played some lovely football at times. The new rules didn't do us any harm anyway. Hopefully we'll hang on to everyone and give it another good go next year.

[Jd]

The decision to go to a replay for co finals was made by the clubs at a committee meeting last year with replays going to et and pens. The decision to go for a two week break was down to a player being involved in both senior co finals I think it was initially written in the program as being on the Saturday before the hurling

[Voice of tReason]

I think a replay is always the right call when it comes to a County final.

I know the conditions deteriorated which robbed us of a replay befitting the quality of the first final but I still think players, for the efforts they give all year, would prefer to go again for 60 mins rather than 20 where fatigue and injuries can become a deciding factor.

I hope I'm wrong but I'd be nervous about Portarlington going down to Carlow tomorrow.