Cummins: Deise chiefs have got it wrong
April 24, 2014
Waterford's Shane O'Sullivan with Cian McCarthy and Daniel Kearney of Cork. INPHO
Brendan Cummins feels the Waterford county board have handed Cork the initiative by blocking training for their senior hurlers until after the May Bank Holiday weekend.
Derek McGrath's squad have been ordered not to train together for four weeks so that club activity can take precedence. The decision means that the Deise will have just three weeks to prepare for the Munster SHC opener against the Rebels on May 25.
"Coming from the inter-county set-up in the last three or four years, every time you mention the dressing room, it is about family, it is about bonding," former Tipperary goalkeeper Cummins told RTE's League Sunday Extra.
"Players not being together to play elite sport level for a four-week period... even if they just met up, they don't necessarily need to train or run around the field, but they do need to meet up to keep linked in with each other. From a tactics point of view, you only have three weeks to prepare for the Cork game.
"Cork may have stolen a march on them."
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