Flanagan warns winter training ban ‘disaster’ causing injuries

FORMER Kerry trainer Pat Flanagan has labelled the winter inter-county training ban a “total disaster” and has claimed the hiatus on preparations is causing injuries rather than preventing them.

He is well qualified to state his case. Flanagan’s innovative training routines were a pivotal part of Kerry’s All-Ireland successes in 2004 and 2006 and he is again involved under Jack O’Connor this season, though in a less hands-on role.

A coach since 1982, he has experience of numerous sports other than Gaelic football, including hurling, athletics, volleyball and basketball.