Waterford boss Liam Cahill has said that the three long term injuries in the Waterford camp are still progressing, but no return date is in sight as of yet.
Pauric Mahony and Tadhg De Búrca are both rehabbing ACL's while Darragh Fives is recovering from an ankle injury he picked up before the Cork game.
“We’ve three main players there – Pauric (Mahony), Tadhg (de Búrca) and Darragh Fives as well, who’s been so unfortunate with injury. Not just under my term but over the last couple of years.”
“The three of them are long term injuries. The three fellas are marvelous men the way they work behind the scenes to get themselves right. They’re really focussed and driven young men to be fair to them.”
With collective training for GAA teams stood down until April at the earliest, the players on the physio's table will be without the support of their teammates for the foreseeable future.
“They’re kind of left to their own devices now to get themselves right. Obviously, we have the support there if they need it in their rehabilitation, but the majority of their work now is the lonely road of recovery on their own.”
“It’s not for everybody. We’ve seen a lot of players don’t make it through recovery when they get injured, they haven’t got the mental resilience to be able to do what’s required, but thankfully the three men in question are really mentally strong players and they’re working really hard behind the scenes to get their injuries right.”
“It remains to be seen now with the way covid is and whether the championship will happen in the summer or later. If it happens later, well it gives them three players a great opportunity to be back”.
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