Davy vows to keep close eye on player burnout

CLARE boss Davy Fitzgerald has set training limits for his players in a bid to keep them fresh.

Fitzgerald who is without Cian Dillon, Nicky O’Connell, Brian O’Connell, Conor McGrath and Darach Honan for Sunday’s Allianz League opener against Waterford, is acutely aware of the demands being placed on GAA stars, especially those attending third level.

The two time All-Ireland winner explained: “We have a policy with the Clare senior team, you would train X amount of days a week and that’s it, no matter what the story is. If they play a college game they’ve to miss Clare training; if they play with their club U21s — which is going to cause us a great deal of difficulty over the next couple of weeks with the Clare club championship going on — they’ll miss a game.