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Published 15:53 24 Aug 2017 BST
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"Look, it's the same for everybody else. We have a couple of players that live and work in Dublin so how we manage their energy levels this week, in relation to their travel and what they have to do, we'll throw that all in."In those two sentences, Rochford was overstating 'everybody else' and understating the 'couple of players that live and work in Dublin'. In the current Mayo panel, there are ten players that live, work or study in Dublin. Five are in college but the other five have jobs on the east coast and face regular, lengthy trips back west for training and matches. And that is only during the championship. It gets a lot more hectic and demanding when club commitments come into it. Here are the Mayo players that earn a crust, and reside, in Dublin:
As for the five panel members in third level education up in Dublin, they are:
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