Today’s Question: Should Cillian O’Connor start on Sunday?

Dermot Flanagan knows what’s going through Cillian O’Connor’s head more than most this week. In 1997 he was the big injury concern in a Mayo team before the final against Kerry after picking up a strain.

He started but pulled up after seven minutes. Mayo brought on current manager James Horan in his place. But Horan was a forward and Flanagan a corner-back so a raft of positional changes were made, resulting in Pat Holmes picking up Maurice Fitzgerald who went onto produce a scoring exhibition and end the Kingdom’s 11 year wait for a title.

The risk of starting Flanagan had backfired badly.