Tadhg Kennelly appeared on Newstalk's Off the Ball last night and Joe Molloy asked the Kerryman if he had given Tommy Walsh any advice about transitioning back to GAA.
The former AFL player said that Walsh will likely miss the extra time a professional has to things like pilates but the main thing that he will feel is the pressure that comes with constant contact with the public.
I think he will struggle a little bit with the pressures of the games and not being able to do the small things that he'd like to do when he was over in Australia. All those pilates and stretching and whatnot.
Also you're protected in a professional environment, whereas you're not here. You wake up Monday morning after playing a poor game in Australia or in a professional club and you know, you're cocooned into the football environment.
The majority of boys here wake up and they go into school or whatever they're doing and they've got to face the general public. They're copping the criticism and copping all the pressures that come with it and they don't have someone to protect them.
Kennelly returned home to play for Kerry in the 2009 All-Ireland Championship, scoring two points as the Kingdom defeated Cork in the final. He has called that year the "most pressurised" of his life, despite spending more than 10 year playing for the Sydney Swans in Australia.
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