Will O'Callaghan

Two or three of those lads are already playing senior hurling.

Two of them in Rabbit and Nyland are already kind of key players for the senior team for the rest of the summer.

Touch wood for them, they kind of stay injury-free over the next while because a lot of load on them over the last few weeks.

I know that Nyland was carrying that bit of an injury in the last few weeks too.

But at this stage already, they will always say to you, if you can get two or three lads off a team, you're doing well with an underage team.

And it looks like that's going to be very much the case with this group of Galway 20s.

Yeah, well, look, Murph was on Saturday duty, so we'll get to the Saturday finals in a second.

But just one last question on young players in Galway.

Are you surprised that some of them have become so central to the senior team already, given the age profile of some of these lads?

Or was it a case of you always had a feeling that they were going to come through and it was just a case of Michal giving them a chance and then out they went and on they've flown now?

Well, this reminds me of Skel this week.

Into the old WhatsApp group pops in a screenshot.

I'm pretty sure from Instagram, I think it was humansofgaelicgames, as that account is now called at this stage, which had picked up Conor Whelan's comments about Paul Murphy not that long ago.

Skel?

I've put that actually in.

My apologies.

So you saw your own name on Instagram and you put it in.

My apologies.

and conor whelan's feeling uh which is the company made he felt maybe he went a bit too strong in the strength and condition but he was trying to catch up with the uh the other lads and panels at the time and then eventually he kind of found his own base for his body and found something that kind of fit him a little bit better than the amount of bulking he was trying to do at the time but i think just at that point i think young lads nowadays as well are really really aware because their own strength and condition program was much earlier

of where they need to be at if they're going to hit adult hurling and they're going to be in the space to do that.