Dublin happy to play selection waiting game

In their analysis of Cork, Dublin will have interpreted Cork as a version of Mayo, a team full of runners and pinpointed Seán Powter as a player who must be tagged

TAGGED: Seán Powter of Cork leaves the pitch due to injury during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 1 match between Cork and Louth at Páirc Ui Chaoimh in Cork. Pic: Eóin Noonan, Sportsfile

Rumours abound that Dublin will be down at least one key player for this game. Not that we will know when the team is named, though. That list, which drops on social media on Saturdays, is as accurate as the forecast.

No, it will only be in the 40 minutes or less before throw-in when the team has to be provided to officials that things. But if one story has legs, it is that the county’s hurling captain Eoghan O’Donnell’s call-up to the panel as a forward could be more of a necessity than a luxury.