Cooper bemoans unbalanced schedule

COLM COOPER has echoed Jack O’Connor’s claim that teams are training too much and not playing enough games during the championship season.

It was at Kerry’s pre-All-Ireland final press conference when O’Connor said that there were too few games played over too long a period. Players, he said at the time, were sick of training so much for so few fixtures.

Said Cooper yesterday: “We felt ourselves that, if you go on and win a Munster championship, is there a benefit in not playing for four or five weeks, which was the case in previous years? Certainly, I think there is no substitute for match practice and games.”