Output levels dipped for the likes of Tyrone and Mayo when they eventually made it to the quarter-finals last season, running out of steam and crashing to heavy defeats to fresher Kerry and Dublin teams respectively
The physical toll of a condensed schedule of championship games was laid bare in the cold reality of stats and numbers for Tyrone as their All-Ireland challenge fell apart in 2023.
Read more: Emmett Bradley insists Derry dissent rumours are wide of the mark ahead of Mayo showdown . “Definitely next weekend the bench is going to be huge. We saw how it affected us against Donegal in the Ulster game after the Cavan game. We had a lot of injuries that day, and it definitely affected us coming down the stretch whenever we didn’t have the fresh legs to put on.”
“That’s not to say it’s just going to happen and happen. You have to work and you have to keep being ruthless in defence, and we were ruthless again.” One of those split-second moments of decision saw him race 45 metres from his line to contest possession with Chris Og Jones in last weekend’s clash with Cork.
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