What do you think?

By Andrew Collins
July 12 2010

Sale have followed Leinster down the road of GPS tracking their players during training sessions in order to see how hard they are working, and apparently prevent injuries, but is it the future?

New Sale boss, Mike Brewer, has introduced the new tracking system to Sale claiming the monitors can reduce sort tissue injuries ‘by about 50 or 60 per cent.'

Brewer became aware of the equipment during his time with Leinster, but it seems many of sports top teams are converting, with Manchester United, Real Madrid and the British Lions also bringing the GPS systems.

While for those richer clubs it's an expense worth taking, are the machines justifiable given the cost, which Brewer roughly estimates at ‘about two thirds of the cost of what we would term a squad player'?

Although the machine obviously cannot stop injuries which happen in-game, Brewer deems them worth a squad player, and the question coaches must start asking themselves is; is it better to have a well conditioned squad or a valuable extra man?

For more information on the product, you can visit the company's web site, http://www.gpssports.com/.