Two-thirds of Donegal injuries blamed on training

Former Donegal football physiotherapist Dermot Simpson has revealed two-thirds of the county’s injuries in 2014 and 2015 were due to training.

Simpson also said the ratio of training to games was 10-to-one during the Ulster and All-Ireland championships.

“Over the past two seasons, the Donegal senior football panel had a ratio of 10 trainings to one match during the summer months and almost six trainings for every match pre-championship,” Simpson wrote in his donegalsporthub.com column. “Sixty-six percent of Donegal’s injuries from the past two seasons were from training sessions. Donegal are no different to any other inter-county team. Eighty per cent of times, an inter-county player steps onto the pitch, it’s for a training session.”