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Published 18:10 21 Aug 2017 BST
Updated 18:11 21 Aug 2017 BST
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"He is playing well. If he wasn’t playing well he mightn’t be there after 45 minutes of the game but that game was attritional and you’re marking someone like Stephen O’Brien, a real powerhouse, working, really running hard, Colm got up and down the field," Rochford explained. "I mean, if you look at him, he contributed to one or two scores, had one or two shots. So he’s covering that ground hard and the way he plays the game... he’s into every tackle and at the same time we took that assessment that the likes of Paddy (Durcan), we need to get him into the game and it fell today that Colm came off."But he denies that it is a pre-arranged decision.
"People say ‘you’ve it predetermined that Andy (Moran) comes off' - Andy played the whole game today," the Mayo manager said. "It was a really hard call leaving Paddy out in the first place, are you going to change your full back line that are doing quite well? We needed to get a little bit more mobility into the middle of the field, we’d just conceded a goal. "(Colm Boyle) is no longer 24-years-of-age, his way that he plays is that he plays it very attritional and we love him for that and he does a super super job in that and look god knows what the next day will bring."You can listen to the full Rochford interview with Colm Parkinson (from 17:30) and much more tactical analysis during The GAA Hour right here.
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