Discipline and patience pay dividends for Laois as beauty in eye of the beholder

An idyllic summer afternoon in Croke Park, the type of day footballers dream about — getting an opportunity to showcase their skills and the fruits of all the work that goes into being an inter-county footballer. 

The beauty with sports is all dreams look different and so while many would assume an open, attacking game of football is what is desired, someone else can see things from another perspective. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

This was the third time Carlow and Laois have faced off since mid-March. Following those two league encounters — including the Division 4 final which Laois won 0-15 to 0-11 — both sides would have had an opportunity to tweak their game plan and look to add new wrinkles from what they would have learned from the spring campaign.