GAA return to play: 18 experts on how counties will make best use of the condensed pre-season

With inter-county teams returning to training today, we asked 18 experts for their advice on how sides can make the best use of their condensed pre-season window before competitive action throws in next month

Paul Gallagher, team official, sanitising the balls before a Glenswilly GAA Club training session at Glenkerragh in Donegal. Picture: Oliver McVeigh/Sportsfile

Will inter-county squads be cramming over the next three to four weeks or is that enough time to get their eye in for a return to play?

Mike McGurn: If you’re Dublin or Monaghan, you’re grand because you’ve been at it the last wee while! They’ll fire into the lads and the same thing will happen as what happened when the clubs went back last year after the first lockdown and we will have all those calf, hamstring and groin injuries, which shouldn’t really happen if the training is managed correctly.