POSITIVES IN CRISIS

over Kerry, believes they’ll benefit from the lay-off when football finally resumes.

“Yeah I definitely do,” he said. “Obviously it’s a horrible situation outside of football.

“But in a footballing sense, it’s actually a great opportunity for us to use the time to work on things that we wouldn’t normally get the opportunity to.

“I think for some of the guys, especially amongst our own panel, who have a lot of miles in the legs, for them it’s an opportunity to rest or if they do have niggles, to work on those and for others it’s a time to catch up and put in that little extra in terms of fitness work or strength work, whatever.

“There can be benefits to this. It depends on how we approach it. I suppose how long it goes on for as well, but at the end of the day football isn’t really a priority at the moment.

“We obviously have some lads who are working on the front line with Jack (Mccaffrey) and Michael Fitzsimons and the likes of Dean Rock as well.

“Obviously the team doctors too so we know that there is more to it than football.”

Statsports statement, was drawn from six inter-county teams and was “collated from six collective team training sessions between the winter of 2019 and 2020, and four competitive games – Championship and League – from 2019 and 2020, respectively”.

The statement outlined: “In training, on average there were 43 incursions per minute per player. However, this was likely due to drill selection and static time spent near other players while taking water breaks, huddles or taking general coaching advice.

“As the data collected for this analysis was prior to the implementation of strict social distancing guidelines, clubs can now implement specific coaching drills to further mitigate potential risks.”

The GAA are set to publish their own roadmap for a return tomorrow and may move forward a phase to allow training to resume by late June, which could see club games in July.