Cruciate ligament injury victim Podge Collins is looking on the bright side as he begins the long road to recovery.

The Cratloe dual star suffered the season-ending injury whilst playing against Ballyea in the first round of the Clare SHC recently, but isn't getting down about it.

"There are two things you have to deal with as a sports person, injury and losing," he said in the Sunday Independent.

"They affect every team throughout the season and they are the two things you have to accept as a sports person. I wasn't overly down about it. okay, it is unfortunate that I'm going to miss the rest of the summer and that is a disaster because I love playing, I just want to play matches.

"But there are so many worse things. It's only an injury, you are only missing games. You can come back as quick as you can and focus on next year."

As a first cousin of young Cork dual player Jamie Wall, who has been left paralysed from the waist down after suffering from an epidural abscess on his spine last year, Podge knows how lucky he is to be just injured.

"If Jamie's thing hadn't happened I probably would have been more upset. Jamie not being able to walk at the moment, that is real, that affects a family and Jamie on a daily basis," he continued.

"When I think of that I know getting injured is no big deal. I can still get up out of bed in the morning and walk around. To be paralysed and to not know how long for, that is a real problem. My injury is on the smaller scale of things."

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