Mayo's Seamus O'Shea admits that he would find it very difficult to give the same commitment if he was playing for a so-called weaker county.
O'Shea admits that the demands of the modern day GAA player are huge and were it not for the fact that he is competing for honours on an annual basis, he doesn't think he would give the necessary commitment.
The Mayo midfielder told the Western People that he admired inter-county players from the so-called weaker counties that have little chance of winning anything on a regular basis.
"Particularly, the smaller counties, I look at fellas and they're putting in just as much work but deep down they know they're probably going to be out of the championship in June or July," said O'Shea.
"They've nothing really to look forward too except maybe one championship win and they're putting in all this work. I'd find that very difficult to be honest.
"We haven't been winning All-Irelands in Mayo but at least we're in the conversation and we've been to finals, we're winning semi-finals and Connacht titles, and that's still a carrot at the end of the year - where you know you're going to be in the shake up and you've got a chance and you'll be looking forward to playing in Croke Park hopefully. But if you know you haven't a hope of doing that you'd wonder sometimes how these fellas keep going."
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