Eoin Kelly has suggested that the ban on county training in Waterford could be a money-saving exercise.

Derek McGrath's charges have been told that they can't train again until May 6th, even though they are scheduled to play Cork in the first round of the Munster SHC just 19 days later.

It has been estimated that the in-debt Board could save as much as €8,000 from the training ban and Kelly says this could be a factor in their thinking:

"The ban for three or four weeks of training could be angled at their financial difficulties," the former Decies star says in The Irish Examiner.

"Why they are playing four rounds of championship over four consecutive weekends I don't know, when they could have easily played the first two rounds of the football earlier in the year. There is no need to have them on top of each other.

"To ask Seamus Prendergast or Michael 'Brick' Walsh to play four weekends on the hop and separate themselves from the county scene when, let's be honest, the county scene is not going well, just baffles me.

"They have three weeks to the Cork game when they return and you are not going to do anything the week before the game. So really they have two weeks to prepare and you need a month to prepare for Munster championship.

"With a new manager and a young team you want a month to be heading into that Cork game in peak condition." Tweet

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