No changes for Mayo

Edwin McGreal

MAYO captain Cillian O’Connor has shaken off injury concerns to be named in an unchanged team for tomorrow’s All-Ireland senior football final replay.
Mayo take on Dublin in Croke Park at 5pm on Saturday in the eagerly anticipated rematch with All-Ireland champions Dublin.
O’Connor, together with substitutes Evan Regan and Alan Dillon, were Mayo’s three injury concerns after the drawn game.
O’Connor and Regan took a full part in last weekend’s training camp in Limerick, but Dillon was only due to return to training this week.
It’s the first time Mayo have named the same team for two consecutive matches in 2016. Whether Mayo line out as selected will not be confirmed until the final hour before throw-in.
In Mayo’s eight championship games thus far, Rochford has made late changes in six of them.
The two exceptions – where the team named during the week was the same team which started the game – were in the Qualifier against Kildare and in the drawn All-Ireland final. Injuries and tactical changes have been responsible for the late changes in other games.
Barry Moran was a late tactical change announced just before the semi-final against Tipperary, coming in for full-back Kevin Keane.
Keane, together with Evan Regan, made way in the quarter-final against Tyrone from the team named during that week. Alan Dillon and Jason Doherty were the late inclusions.
Doherty was a late inclusion for the injured Diarmuid O’Connor against Westmeath while in the Fermanagh game Alan Freeman was a late change for Doherty.
In the defeat to Galway, Stephen Coen came in for Conor O’Shea, while Coen was also a late change for Tom Parsons for Mayo’s championship opener in London.
The 11 Mayo substitutes were not named today.
Corner-back Keith Higgins will make his 125th Mayo appearance tomorrow (Saturday), having made his debut against Dublin in 2005.