Quote: duke street 10 "Probably done it early as a slap across the face of the fringe players he felt let him down on Sunday?.'"
Possibly, without seeing the whole press conference though I'd also say McDermott has the tendency to get bored by obvious and repetitive journalist questions and to dismiss the "did anybody play their way in, or more importantly way out vs London" he's just thought f**k it I'll name the team now. Like the OP said, think 99% of us would've come up with that lineup so had no real reason to keep his cards close to his chest and he's probably fielded quite a few questions about team selections over the last few days.