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Made it to Rynaghs v Tullamore this evening.

Poor enough fare, Rynaghs kept tullamore at arms length for most of the game. Conneely and Rigney stood out for me but they were never really troubled.

You would have to wonder with Tullamore. They are very dependent on Dooley who is in the twilight of ...

If memory serves me right, Emmet Nolan played with Birr last year - is he still in the country?

He would be a great addition to the panel next year, an excellent hurler and athlete and God knows we are going to need everyone we can get for next year to stay up.

That 2013 team would have included Rory Hanniffy, Del Morkan, Brian Carroll, Derek Molloy, Joe Bergin and Dooley coming into his prime.
A fine team who just couldn't get a stroke of luck to make a significant breakthrough.

On a separate note, not a whole lot to fear from either Wexford and Dublin ...

Lots of positives to take from today, I thought a lot of lads really stood up when teams of the past would have coasted and more importantly, we kept fighting to the end and got our just rewards.

I thought Conneely, the two Kings, Shirley, the two Sampsons, Dan Bourke and Oisin put in excellent ...

A lot of disappointment supporters including myself and the kids.

Luckily we have Croke Park Saturday week to look forward to, would be great to outnumber the Laois shower and drive the lads home to the Joe McDonagh final.
Not often we get a day out in HQ

Dublin are going to look to create lots of space for Purcell at full forward - I would pick Ruairi Kelly to follow him as he has good pace and reads the game well.

O Dualaing will wander around the place so he is going to pick up pockets of space and have an influence on the game, it's just about ...

Anything less than Laois' first choice 15 starting against Westmeath would be bringing the game into disrepute :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Will be extra sweet when we send them home to fight amongst themselves again for another few years on June 8th. Really like how the team are humming ...

I always felt Rigney had that type of performance in him and massive praise to him delivering on the big day.
Beyond rigney it was fantastic to see Hoare take some of the plaudits, he really seems to be the real deal in a modern goalie - great shot stopper, cool under high balls and a good accurate ...

Positives
- A win is a win. Decent score put up too.
- Delighted for Charlie Mitchell he really was in the zone today and hopefully today will ignite his season. He is a class player and a match for any defender on his day.
- Sampson and Cahill played well and we will need them leading the way as we ...

Personally I think getting out of Joe McDonagh is more important than u20 and there can't be any room for complacency.
Absolutely whip lads off after 50 mins if we are well up but until then go with our strongest, in-form selection.

Shirley will have grown in confidence from his performance after ...

A proper championship contest today it has to be said. Neither of these teams should be playing in a 2nd tier championship if they are to be given the chance to improve.

I think the intensity of the first 50 minutes told for both teams, what differed was that Laois' bench added fresh scoring ...

A lot to like about that team.

They must play each ball though and be ready for the 'revenge' motivation Laois will have.plenty of depth there to really push on in the last 10.

Big crowd needed down to push the lads down the home stretch in the last few minutes in what is a pivotal match for our ...

Not sure if Ravenhill should have played today, he looked to be carrying a knock.

We should have pushed on today and lucky to hold on in the end.

With the round robin nature of these games I thought it would have been a good opportunity to give one or two more players some game time. If we are to ...

Going to be very tight between the three midland teams this year I feel.

Both Laois and Westmeath have recent championship experience at a higher level. Despite our decent showing in the league this year, championship is different gravy.

I get that we have to earn the right to play at the highest ...

Good win despite the atrocious conditions.

Concerning how they were able to run down the middle of us quite a lot but the game will bring the team on.

Only an observation, but for puckouts our entire full back line were very bunched together, granted it was not a day for short puckouts but it ...