After the hammering Leitrim got today Laois will be fully flying to get a home win next week. Leitrim are going to lose every game I suspect and may well end up with a record minus score difference so they have a relegation spot secured. If we don't get over Laois next week I fear we may well be joining Leitrim. Big week ahead!

Sligoman1234 (Sligo) - Posts: 466 - 08/02/2025 16:30:42    2590055

Tough loss for Summerhill today losing 2-9 to 1-9 in the A schools final. Played all the football 2nd half but gave themselves too much to do against the wind. Brady looks a great player and plenty of quality coming through for Sligo. All the molaise lads showed very well. Showed loads of character 2nd half but the black card probably curtailed all the momentum. Congrats to Colmans who were very good in the 1st half.

Leitrim are clearly very weak this year. I guess Moran and Graham knew. Just too many injuries and players left the set up for them to cover. Laois are not that good though. It would be interesting to see how many changes they made from offaly game. We have to win next week but they'll have their tails up that's for sure.

Sligonian (Sligo) - Posts: 1783 - 08/02/2025 17:42:23    2590082

johncreilly (Sligo) - Posts: 143 - 09/02/2025 01:21:34    2590165

I posted here a few weeks ago that both Spillane and Deignan are much better on a drier sod. Spillane's performances in the last 2 games proved my point. A good player but not at this time of year. Deignan has huge potential but is just after breaking into the Sigerson team. Markievicz Park the last day certainly would not have suited him. If a player can't make a Sigerson team then they can't expect to make the Co team. I think Nathan Mullen has served his suspension so I imagine he will come straight back into the team. Towey was good when he came on the last day. Very good attacking, maybe not as good defending. Carrabine is a loss but I actually thought he looked a bit jaded last year. The break will do him good. Attack wise we were all over the shop the last day. A small bit of patience and picking the right option would have seen us win in that critical phase when we were a point down.

eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 2024 - 09/02/2025 15:55:41    2590264

Tony mcentee is a top manager imo and plays attacking football, he would be my top pick if mcgeeney ever left, hard to know what way teams are going with new rules especially when some rules might change before end of the league, height in middle is definitely needed in new rules, need plenty of workers in middle 8 for breaking ball but I think Sligo have a great squad and should be competing for promotion I'd say some of the players playing sigurson are not being selected until that's over, I wouldn't worry about scores for Sligo as I think you have great forwards, I do think you miss carribine he is a top level player and would start for any county, he would help with fielding and 2 pointers. I do think the goalkeeper rule will change as it is deciding too many matches so wouldn't be changing things too quickly there, but Sligo have players and have been great underage for years so I'd keep the faith as I have no doubt you will be in div 2 in next 2 years, great forwards on the squad that will start keeping dividends

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Sligonian (Sligo) - Posts: 1783 - 10/02/2025 18:10:07    2590484

Congrats to the Sligo lads on DCU Sigerson cup winning panel. A great achievement and another medal to add to their collection. Fair play to Luke, Sean, Eoghan and Lee.

Sligonian (Sligo) - Posts: 1783 - 13/02/2025 23:19:23    2590904

I'd expect a few changes to the team for Laois. Mullen and Towey to start with I'd say Daire O Boyle or Deignan to start inside line in the forwards. We do have few injuries but these changes will add a lot of pace and power to the team and give us a better dynamic going forward. Laois are in the bracket of teams we have been beating so I am expecting a win. The pressure is on but the lads have reacted well in the last few years. Kildare was always going to be tough 2nd game. This game will tell us more of where we are at and Id expect us to put up a big score. No good playing well in challenge games and not translating to matchday. All the best on Sunday.

Sligonian (Sligo) - Posts: 1783 - 14/02/2025 16:37:38    2591028

Well our year looks fairly ominous now after that defeat. If we get well beaten by the team coming up from Div 4 what does that say! I can't say I'm overly surprised, our panel doesn't seem to have improved anyway by either the introduction of the u20s or the new rules. I can't really explain how I think it could be better either, it just seems to be awful flat and disappointing. I'm sure most players and indeed hardcore supporters would have been hoping for the prospect of promotion rather than avoiding relegation.

In terms of games ahead, the Leitrim result will probably be irrelevant now, we have to get wins against Antrim in particular for head to head. A win against Clare next week would be against the odds I'd imagine and Fermanagh in Enniskillen is always tricky. It's a shame to see what we all thought as progress since the Taylor era potentially ending us back where we started and tbf I hate saying it but McEntee hasn't really come out with answers as to how or why it should be different. Carrabine absence alone cannot be blamed for the status at present. Absolutely he'd be a huge addition to the team, but I'm not sure he'd have turned the deficit against Laois or Kildare around.

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westvoice (Sligo) - Posts: 69 - 17/02/2025 16:42:29    2591626

Bitterly disappointing defeat and performance. Deja vu as McEntee puts it. It looks like his tenure is not going to be looked back at fondly, we are in serious danger of heading back to Division 4 with him in charge. It doesn't surprise me at all how it has gone but you hoped for different. We have to win 2 of our next 3. Have to beat Clare, Antrim and Leitrim. Today we showed no energy. The reports back all said it looked like Laois had an extra man. They said today's scoreline should have been 30pts to 10pts, Laois took foot off the gas, this is Laois team who lost 5 of their starting forwards from last year and we cry about losing Carrabine. Laois aren't contenders in Leinster.

He called the team 'abject' and a pale shadow of the team we think we are. This is not even close to a division 2 team if that's what he thinks. That is just ego. I think the management and CB fell into the hype of last year even though most seen major issues. I said a few weeks ago 8 or 9 of the 26 wouldn't make my squad.

McEntee says he doesn't know what's wrong - that's probably because him and Joe Keane are the main issue along with County Board who are not playing their role and letting the county down. They will probably dig in now to save face but they need to put Sligo first. I have always believed that this management team are poor. Look at how slow they are to adapt to the new rules. This team is a reflection of the manager.

McEntee mentioned we played very well against Cavan and Donegal in challenge games recently. We hear that all the time, we are going great in challenges and in training but for a long time this team struggles to bring any form into match day when it matters especially at this time of year. Totally different intensity and pressure. Again McEntee when he evaluates players has consistently given too much importance to challenges and training. He doesn't understand the importance of big game players or big game mentality as a manager which is surprising given his background.

McEntee said our application, control, aggression, temp, pace all very poor. All basics of the game but again a reflection of the management and coaching. Do you think this happens under Harte at Offaly? And many others. Just look at what a good manager can do. Laois had all those attributes.

You have to take into account the quality of players coming into the set up have multiple Connacht winning medals at club, county and schools and they are regressing under this management. No other management in the history of Sligo GAA has had these riches coming into the set up. The problem is they are coming into a set up that finds a way to lose and under-perform.

Ending back in Division 4 would be a disaster. No other successful counties would tolerate this at senior for as long as we have given the progress in other area's. My biggest issue with this Management is its year 5 of McEntee and year 7 of Keane, how can you not learn and better year on year and not make the same mistakes? That is just wild to me and that it has been tolerated so easily.

The year is not over yet and hopefully the players can turn it around. Its time to wake up and show some fight.

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