Kevin Reilly feels a lot of GAA coaches aren't "skilled, aware, or qualified enough to be taking teams".
Forced to retire from intercounty duty last October at the age of 29 due to a litany of injuries, the ex Meath star believes players are being pushed too hard by clueless coaches:
"A lot of coaches think that more is better. If you put in a two-hour session, well, then, that's better than an-hour-and-a-half, where all the research is pointing to high-intensity training. Specificity of training, in terms of linking it to, or mimicking, match-play, that's where it should be," the former Royal County captain said on LMFM radio.
"I don't think enough coaches are skilled, or aware, or qualified enough to be taking teams. They're all willing and, obviously, it's an amateur sport and they have the best interests of the club, or the county, or the college, but I don't think, in some cases, not all, that they have the necessary expertise or qualifications to do the job effectively.
"I know players and they would have been the leading lights in Meath at 17, 18, all the way up, but they never got to U21 or the senior grade, because they were broke, mentally and physically, because of the demands of training. I could name three or four players in my club alone that were really hot prospects for the future and never made it through, unfortunately. I put it down to the volume of training, of teams and games, that they had to contend with over those years."
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