Colm Bonnar: You’d rarely have to blow a whistle in training
On his first trip up to Ballyhale to consider managing the club’s hurlers, Colm Bonnar was struck by an absence in the Kilkenny club’s facilities.
No gym. No weights. Little apart from hurleys, in fact. “The county players would have the best of gym programmes, obviously, but when I met up with the club officials originally it was a case of they had the local community hall but there weren’t any huge indoor facilities of their own. There were lights on one side of the pitch for physical training, but they wouldn’t have a lot of the stuff that you’d find in clubs which are big into the physical side of preparation — there wouldn’t be kettlebells and so on, they concentrate on hurling.”
