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A criticism levelled at Galway last season was a lack of faith in their bench

Galway's Eoghan Kelly is tackled during the game with Monaghan. Picture: INPHO/Ben Brady

On the Wednesday before last year’s All-Ireland football final, this newspaper carried a stats-heavy piece spelling out Galway’s complete lack of bench press.

The outstanding piece of evidence presented against the Galway bench was that across the Connacht final, All-Ireland quarter-final, and semi-final, Finnian Ó Laoí’s 50th-minute point in the Armagh win was the sole score by a Galway sub in those three outings.