Colm Keyes

Donegal played 11 games last year.

No team in Championship history has ever played more in the Championship, obviously on top of their seven games.

So they had an 18-game schedule.

And as Conor points out, they were flying in the semi-final against Meath.

They literally overran Meath in that game, came into that All-Ireland final really primed.

And this year, with far less games...

There's much different background music.

I think it's very similar to what Jim McGuinness was saying in his third year of his previous term in 2013, if you recall.

At that stage, he was...

on about the schedule of the club championships and that was really a problem that was club championships played during the game and the players were broken then.

There's no club championships this year.

So they've, he's had the players, Donegal have had the players since whenever it was last November.

Yeah.

You know, they've, it's in their care and all of that to manage them.

So really, he said they have to look at everything.

They have to, and maybe that overall intensity

that they have up on their training ground and all of that day-to-day, they have to look at that too.

That was the point he was making.

He said, we're looking at this and we're looking at what we think strategically they will be able for based on the numbers.

He did make that point as well, that we're measuring that, we're looking at it all the time.