The winter months are a hard time for the inter county footballer- seemingly interminable fitness sessions and the long road to the summer still stretching far ahead can drain the most dedicated of individuals.
Oisin Langan spoke to Louth footballer Darren Clarke about the methods and plans for approaching the winter months- handling injury concerns, the pressures of returning to a team with a new manager in place and why players want to play mid-week games.
Clarke’s Louth side face Meath tonight in the O’Byrne cup and he told Oisin why the restructured format is going to prove beneficial to a lot of the smaller counties.