In the six months or so after Dublin’s All-Ireland semi-final loss to Kerry, Jonny Cooper went searching for that little extra.
As an exercise, it wasn’t particularly different to what he had undertaken in all the previous close seasons over the years, when he was always able to find an extra edge from somewhere to further his development as a footballer.
“It’s not solely the Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday tradition of going to the gym, pitch, analysis - all that kind of stuff is standard,” he explains.
