Galway reap rewards for going back to the tried and very trusted

TRIED AND TRUSTED: Galway manager Cathal Murray during the Glen Dimplex Camogie All-Ireland Senior Championship semi-final. Pic: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

When a team enters transition, as Galway have over the past two seasons, standard practice is that young and emerging faces are brought in to replace the older and experienced departing personnel.

Galway have gone a different route in responding to the normal dressing-room churn that comes with an ageing panel. The experience lost has been replaced with experience recalled. Quality lost has been replaced by quality coaxed back.