'There's a couple of Grade 3s in there as well. That's certainly been the injury that has plagued me most, especially when it becomes chronic it can be quite challenging as a player.'
Dublin star Paddy Small has revealed how he has endured up to 20 hamstring injuries in the last five years as he tried to establish himself on the team.
“But again, it's a responsibility on us to make sure that when we do come back, we're coming back in even better shape, that we've worked on something that we mightn't have had the opportunity to work on when we were on the pitch.
“If you go back to even under-14, I remember being dropped from my Féile team, and then under-16 I was in a competition called the Gerry Reilly Cup and there was a panel of 42 picked for that and I didn’t make the panel. “To be honest, in hindsight, I probably should have been dropped. I wasn't playing well, I wasn't probably physically there.
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