'Baker' not bothered with challenges
May 11, 2012
Former Antrim manager Liam Bradley and selector Gearoid Adams
'Baker' has eschewed organising challenges in the build-up to the Saffrons' May 27th Ulster SFC clash with Monaghan. He explains the logic of his thinking in today's Irish News:
"We're not playing any challenge games. We're just playing in-house games among ourselves. I feel you get more benefit from an in-house game than a challenge game.
"We've felt that we've got very little out of challenge games in years gone past. We've some humdinger games among ourselves this year and we feel that is of more benefit leading up to matches.
"The problem with challenge games is that you're making substitutions just to make them, just to give a fella a run-out, which is wrong.
"You can play 70 minutes of a good in-house game among yourselves and everybody is getting 70 minutes of football. You're not taking a guy off after 30 just to give someone else a run-out.
"We know what all the players are capable of doing at this stage. It's just a matter now of who wants a starting 15 place the most." Tweet
