Podge Collins says it's got to the point where he brings a football and a sliothar to his workouts.

Clare double winners Cratloe have qualified for the Munster hurling club final and are within an hour of the provincial football decider and Collins says it's no problem keeping a feel for both balls:

"Every time you go down to the ball alley you've got to bring the big ball and the small ball and give them 20 minutes each, to keep sharp," he says in The Irish Times. "That's how it is, but we just love it. We love both games here in Cratloe, and want to keep it going as long as possible.

"As long as you're winning that's easy. You don't feel at all tired when you're winning. If you were losing, you'd feel the belts a lot more. As soon as we lose, people will be saying you can't do both, you're too tired, or it's too hard.

"But we're just loving it at the minute, loving playing all the matches. It's just about recovery, too, stretching and trying to say loose. You're trying to stay as fresh as you can, eating as well as you can. It's difficult enough with matches coming every week.

"But it's what you dream of. At the start of the year it was sort of unspoken, but we really wanted to do the double in Clare. That was in our minds. We saw Loughmore do it the year before, in Tipp and it was kind of a dream for us. Now, we're just going week by week."

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