Santry hails Cubby selection policy

Brian Cuthbert decision to allow Cork’s fringe players line out with their clubs this spring should be used as a template for other county managers.

That is the view of Castlehaven boss Finbarr Santry who believes Cuthbert’s strategy to allow county panellists return to their clubs if not selected on league weekends will prove beneficial to Cork in the long term.

“Over the last number of years you wouldn’t have your club players until maybe a week before championship,” noted Santry. “It is all right for Cork’s first 15 and the lads who would have been regularly introduced as subs, but there would have been a lot of lads on the Cork panel who would have sat on the bench and kept it warm, that was no benefit to them. I think Brian has made a great call. Lads will be now getting more game time and it will only increase the competition on the inter-county scene. If Brian wants these lads to go back to their clubs for weekend games I think it is great and it can only be positive for Cork.