How the teams prepared this week will be key

Gerry Fitzpatrick is well versed in managing the six-day turnaround, the Wexford hurling trainer charged with conditioning the Model troops through a most hectic schedule this summer — four games in 24 days they played.

How the teams prepared this week will be key

Kerry and Mayo lock horns in tomorrow’s semi-final replay, six days on from the first instalment, and Fitzpatrick is adamant the preparation of both sides this week will be as crucial to the outcome as to what transpires inside the four whites lines in Limerick.

“Both teams at this stage of the season will have structured their training in preparation for a game every three weeks such is the gap from the Munster final to the quarter-final and the quarter-final to the semi,” he said. “Here they are being asked to play two games in the space of a week and that throws everything off-kilter.

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