Dublin will struggle unless Alan Brogan regains full fitness

It’s difficult to know whether Justin McNulty and his Laois players actually wanted to win the game or were they more concerned with not getting a heavy drubbing, as many expected.

Indeed over recent years this Laois team have suffered many heavy defeats, on the back of some abject performances.

In the same fixture last year Laois went down by eight points to Dublin but it could and should have been much more such was the gap between the sides.