good point- that cavan accent is fucked up
Smashing performance from KIB is has to be said. If they repeat that on paddy’s day they won’t be too far away.
hi-jinx
Kilmurry Ibricken 
A fine clean hard working football team.
Hope we don’t get them in the first round of the championship.
Porlaoise
too many pints at christmas the soft townie cunts :guns:
i think i’ll sample a 
or two in quilty later, surely someone will get thrown through a window or perhaps a little bit of “7up” action… Kib man will know the score.
Didn’t see anyof it, but delighted for KIB, and Clare football, great win.
They can have the parade in Portaoise now anyway, idiots. :rolleyes:
Just watching highlights of the KIB match there again on Sunday Sport, disappointed to see one of the main protagonists involved in barracking the referee at half time was wearing a Celtic tracksuit top…The gutter snipe, bringing shame on the diaspora
Wrong thread fuckers
Full marks to KIB yesterday, fully deserving of the win. Spoke to a lot of Town lads yesterday who were very bitter with regards to the referee, and while I agree he ruined the game as a contest with that early red (a yellow for me, what do the rest think?) I believe KIB would have won it anyway irregardless. Portlaoise lost their heads completely when losing the extra man, both on and off the field. To see a manager chase a referee up a tunnel at half time, when he was needed inside to calm him players down and reoganise them was farcial and showed that Portlaoise’s heads were truly gone.
The extra man gave KIB the cushion of doubling up on Cahillane (who I believe may be another Laois footballer to small and too nice for intercounty football, but time will tell, yesterday was hard to judge because of the double marking and the fact that too many Portlaoise players lost their heads) and as a result nullifed Portlaoise’s major scoring thread once Tuohy and McNulty were unavailable.
Was very impressed with KIB, a very very fit side who play to an organised gameplan and are a credit to their people.
A final note on the disgraceful scenes at half time and full time, 2 Portlaoise business men in particular will be hanging their heads in shame today.
Best wishes to KIB, I would be equally happy to see them or Galls win it from here. The Gaelic Grounds is the burial ground of yet another promising Laois team, its unreal that hoodoo that place has over Laois sides.
A blatant red imho.
mccormack should get a ban for pushing the ref after being sent off. it was a second yellow for a high tackle, there would have been no complaints if it was the first yellow.
the goalkeeper should also be cited for slapping down the hand of the umpire near the end when he correctly awarded a 45 to kib.
No arguments with the last two. Portlaoise will get fines they can ill afford from this, clowns.
I still believe the first red was uncalled for completely. But like I said, I dont believe it would have changed the end outcome, just the entertainment on show. Mulligan the elder was fairly sour at the end of it alright, son or no son, take your beating like a good fella.
no way at all. definite red. who gives a shite if it was the first minute or the last. he had no intention of playing the ball, and bursted him out with a high tackle. ref was spot on. a yellow card would have been chickening out of the situation. Mulligan didnt have the composure alright. Its hard for managers not to get caught up in the hysteria of all the commotion, but the good ones do avoid it and get the team working right.
Guess will have to beg to differ, I thought it was fierce bad call meself. Mulligan got caught up in it, perhaps it was because it was his son, but either was he should have known better. The fines that will follow wont help them much, and the GAA won’t be happy considering Portlaoise will be begging for handouts from them shortly enough more than likely. :rolleyes:
I think he could have given the yellow, and given that it wasn’t blatantly around the neck he could have made allowances based on that and the fact that it was so early. The point is though, the way things are now the responsibility is on the tackler to keep the tackle in the midriff and if the arm slides up and ends up a high tackle it’s their own fault. As soon as lads figure that out this kind of thing will start to disappear.
I wouldn’t have any argument with the red cards but I thought he was generally harsh on the town and he awarded KIB frees for the type of infringement he was letting go at the other end of the park. The 'keeper should have decked the umpire at the end though - I thought Clare people would show solidarity with this point after the incident in the Munster U21 hurling final in 2008.
the clare under 21 fiasco was a bad call, whereas awarding a 45 to kib when the ball was touched out off a portlaois player was a good call ??
It says a lot about the importance of a professional county setup though that a Clare side can go out and demolish teams from the top counties. The gap from top to the bottom in football is so much smaller than hurling. There isn’t a hope that a club form a Division 4 hurling county could beat the chmpions of one of the top hurling counties. It reminds me of the thing Liam Griffin said about getting a group of athletes in Africa and within five years of coaching in gaelic football they’d be competitive at inter-county level.
Carlow Clubs were doing it for years, and Laois arent a top tier county anymore (were we ever even) am afraid.
ah but this is an endightment on the football setup in the county. there is plenty good footballers in the county to be competing at div 3 and prob div 2 level. hopefully mcdermot can bring belief to the team and get us out of division 4.
More hurling snobbery. The way things are going football will be the far more competitive and a better game to watch in the next few years.
Maybe, but the fact remains football is an easier game to play.
To play gaelic football you need to be able to: run, catch something passed to you from five yards away, bounce the ball while running, and finally pass a ball to someone five yards away from you. I played three years of senior schools football at midfield/half-back line with that skill set, despite playing little or no club football at all. To participate on even the most basic level in hurling you need to have mastered a lot of difficult skills. That’s why football spreads so much easier than hurling, hurling is just a much more difficult game to play.