Denis Glennon is delighted to see Westmeath returning back to basics under new manager Tom Cribbin.

The former Lake County captain believes that other counties, including his own, have been struggling mimic the level of professionalism which Dublin have reached and thinks it's time for a different approach.

"I think with Dublin so far ahead with their professionalism, we're all looking in at them and what they're doing and trying to compete with them and trying to adjust our training and adjust our style of play to try and get up to their level, but it hasn't worked. They've just separated the gap and gone even further ahead,"Glennon told The Irish Times.

"So it's refreshing to go back and do the really, really tough running and I think it can only be good when you can come up to Croke Park and can run for 70 minutes solid.

"The training we're doing is tough, it's the hardest training I've done since Páidí Ó Sé time, it's really going back to basics with laps and that but I think it's something with a fresher approach in this generation, that you go back to that type of training and I'm enjoying it.

"It's tough and because it's tough it's bringing a lot of team bonding and lads are walking off after training saying Jesus lads were after going through the mill there together and and we did it and we pulled together. It's bringing back that bond."

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