The problem with S&C of the current bunch is that the majority of them lack natural size to begin with and a whole lot of them are still growing because they’re so young. Some of them will have a low ceiling of conditioning because of their naturally smaller size.
Just to go through the team last night we have Corkery, Taylor, O’Donovan, Herlihy, Dineen, Sherlock & O’Rourke are all naturally smaller individuals who are being worked on but they won’t ever be fully powerful enough to thrive consistently at this level. Everyone else except both Maguires and O’Callaghan also look physically limited. That’s an awful lot of guys short of conditioning for this level even if they’re trying their best.
Galway, who aren’t known to be a physical team, looked huge in comparison. Shane Walsh is probably the peak condition for this level. He is strong, quite tall but without compromising his speed which is like lightning. No matter how good our players are as footballers they will never get to that sort of level because they’re naturally stunted by size.
