Replying To royalcounty1: "I dont doubt your sentiment but it is a bit of a myth. There is rarely subs suddenly ripping up trees going hammer and tongs above the first 15 standard, the first 15 will out perform the reserves. 9/10 times.
Championship has come too early for jones, gray, kinlough, the 3 of them are fighting with eachother to even make the squad at this stage.
So realistically there is three two men who can/will come into the team and that is banty or costello and Ryan. The innovation or change will come in how he lines them out and who starts. I dont think we get both banty and costello starting together. I think mcbride,costello,lynch, banty will never all start together.
Say we have a scenario where our last first 15 are the ones driving training on, we will all frame it as brennan is just going with tried and trusted.
I just hope oconnor, morris, menton, caufield, coffey return to their league form, they were all pasengers in terms of impact against WM."
Has Gray had niggly injuries all year or why has he not had at least some minutes? There is lots of football in him and he had a really good club championship last year. Expected him to push on. Wouldn't say championship has come too early for anyone as its effectively a restart in possibly 5 weeks time. Okay expect 10-12 of same team that started against Westmesth to feature next day out and probably about 22 of the 26 to be renamed too but there has to be lots of places up for grabs and the best performing players to meet the team needs should be picked.