Legendary manager Sean Boylan doesn't think Tyrone players will recover properly for their re-fixed All-Ireland semi-final.
The Red Hand men were due to face Kerry tomorrow, but the game has been pushed back to next weekend after a significant Covid-19 outbreak plunged the bulk of the squad into isolation.
Both sides acknowledged the need to push back the game, but Tyrone GAA have said that a further postponement may be needed or the county may have to concede the game.
And reflecting on his own experience battling Covid-19, the four-time All-Ireland winning manager doubts the players affected will recover to give a true reflection of their ability.
Boylan also questioned why the GAA couldn't postpone the game further.
"It was the most frightening thing that ever happened to me in my life," Boylan told RTE.
"I'd be an old man compared to these lads, but when you get somebody that gets Covid properly it nearly destroys the natural vitality of youth - it wrecks them.
"Everybody thinks that they can go out in three or four days and play again - it's absolutely nonsensical.
"Because they're good athletes I could see them recovering in 10 days but I couldn't see them recovering in four or five days - not a hope in hell.
"I would have seen it with one of the Meath lads who got it last year, and how it affected him. When you go to Croke Park and you don't perform there's no point in saying, 'sure I had Covid'.
"I know there's an argument that the club championships have to start but there's no reason why they couldn't start in the other 30 counties.
"I'd rather be safe than sorry. I know if it was the lads that I was involved with down through the years and you were faced with it, yes you would go out [and play]. But you'd like to think that everybody would have a fair crack of the whip.
"I've no vested interest in the blessed world here. I just want to see lads being able to do what they set out to do."
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