Moran: Davy will soon have to whittle down options

With Waterford, Fitzgerald has already handed game time to 26 different players in his first National League campaign and the competition is only two games old.

SELECTION TIME: Former Waterford hurler and Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup winner with WIT, Kevin Moran as he looks ahead to the Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup semi-finals and Final taking place this week. Pic: ©INPHO/Bryan Keane

Back when Davy Fitzgerald was managing Wexford, he typically worked off a slim panel with a core group of key players.

Across seven National League games in his first season with Wexford in 2017, he handed competitive game time to just 28 players. That was in his first season with a brand new county when you might have expected high experimentation, like John Kiely for instance who was in his first season too with Limerick in 2017 and used 37 players across that same league campaign.