Shefflin on course for championship return March 08, 2012





Kilkenny's Henry Shefflin Kilkenny's Henry Shefflin

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Henry Shefflin has resumed non-contact training with Kilkenny, but won't return to action until the championship.The Ballyhale Shamrocks clubman is targeting the Leinster SHC semi-final against Carlow, Laois or Dublin on June 22 as his comeback game as he continues his recovery from a shoulder operation he underwent before Christmas."The surgeon told me from the outset that it would be six months and it's definitely going to be that," he said in the Irish Daily Star."That would bring me right up to the end of May. I don't want to say when I'll be back because I just don't know. It could be a bit slower than expected. Or things could go well. I could make up time and I could be back early."Shefflin, who will bid for a record ninth All-Ireland medal this summer, decided to return to collective training because he was getting 'bored' training by himself."I am back training with the boys for the past two weeks. It can be so boring on your own. Being in the team environment is good for me," he continued."I haven't been doing any drills with the lads and I'm a long way off any contact stuff, but it's good just to be there alongside them. Unfortunately, in some ways I'm used to this," said the star forward, who has come back from two cruciate ligament injuries before.