Chris Scott on… Oisin Mullin 

Oisin really deserves his chance in the team. 

Obviously, some positions have opened up with some of the injury issues we have but specifically with Oisin we felt that he could come in fill a real need for us. 

Oisin has followed a pretty similar path to Mark O'Connor in that in a short space of time - we knew he had the physical capacity, all of those boxes were ticked pretty quickly -  but his ability to pick up the game and the way we like the game to be played has been really impressive. He won't be the sub, he won't be held back, he will be right in the thick of the action from the start. It's a great story. 

Chris Scott on… Oisin Mullin PT 2

Oisin will play mainly back but we've been trying to develop a bit of flexibility there. 

Zach Tuohy has been desperate to have an All-Ireland half backline at some stage and that's a possibility but some of our backs in particular play a fair bit through the midfield so we'll probably take eight or nine guys that can play back and shuffle them around a little bit. 

Chris Scott on… Danger’s Return

I'm still thinking that (returning before the bye) but with an open mind. 

We will be cautious but my take on it is we've already been cautious, so it looks likely for it to be next week. There's quite a few that fit into that category but with the bye coming up it adds an extra wrinkle, and that combined with the fact that it looks like we'll have a big group of players coming back at roughly the same time we just need to think through how all that looks but, it's been good all the way through. 

Pretty optimistic about next week. 

Chris Scott on… A Cam Guthrie Update

Initially he had a little bit of what is colloquially known as a Turf Toe injury. The Sydney game, he got subbed out at 3QT for purely management purposes. He went in with a little bit of a sore toe that he could play with but they (the medical team) weren't concerned about it. The game was in hand at 3QT and we thought discretion is the better part of valor, let's chop him out and he came in the Monday feeling really good. 

Then he just developed some pain in a different area of his toe - I'll let the medical people explain the difference between the original issue and what developed but suffice to say it was something different that they were much more worried about so it required a slower rehab program right at the start but we still thought it would be a couple of weeks.

 [But] it just hasn't progressed that way and it's gotten to the point where he's had so much time without any loading in general, so much time without running or footy training, that it's just going to take a little bit longer from here than we would have thought. 

Still optimistic that it would be relatively quickly after the bye but it certainly won't be before that.