O’Dwyer: we threw in towel completely

IT’S been said many a time that Laois just don’t know how to win. Maybe so, but they certainly know how to lose in style.

Yesterday’s humiliating 14-point defeat was the county’s heaviest championship loss to Dublin in 27 matches, a run that spans three centuries all the way back to a 7-11 to 0-3 reversal in 1899.

Laois have simply deluded themselves; nobody will believe they are a ‘coming force’ after this no matter how often it is shouted from the rooftops.