'You try to poke a few bears and elicit a response': Ger Brennan on motivating older Dublin stars

After the back-to-back championship defeats to Westmeath and Louth, Dublin are a side transformed over the past eight days. Donegal and Galway have both exited on their watch.

Dublin manager Ger Brennan reacts during the All-Ireland senior football quarter-final against Galway. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile.

When Ger Brennan pricked ears and turned heads with his February 1 comments that a couple of older panel members could be in line for the chop, there was an assumption in some quarters that Niall Scully was one of the players the new Dublin manager was referring to.

That assumption and those post-match comments following league defeat to Mayo seem from another lifetime now.