Hockey shot-stopper Amy Gibson has admitted that she would have to think about making a return to the Great Britain side should the opportunity come around, writes Jack Crawford.

Gibson, who used to play for Helensburgh-based Loch Lomond Hockey Club, now turns out for Alster in Germany.

And she knows she'll have a difficult task to capture the current number one spot for the GB team ahead of World Goalie of the Year Maddie Hinch.

The 28-year-old goalkeeper, who has two caps for Great Britain, says that she isn’t sure if she could do any better than Hinch, who saved penalties in the Rio 2016 final where Team GB won gold, and has missed trials for the 2020 squad due to injury.

She said: “Because of my slipped disc in October, and in November they did trials for this cycle, and I was injured so I couldn’t trial.

"The coach obviously decided that I get injured quite a lot and I wasn’t going to be part of the squad anymore.

“He didn’t say ‘you’d never play for GB any more’. He said if I was to play well for Scotland over the next couple of years there’s no reason why he wouldn’t look at me again.

“I don’t know if I would really want to do it again.

“Last year she [Hinch] did really well in the Olympic final in the shoot-out, and she’s a really good goalkeeper so are you going to be able to go in and be better than her?

“That’s the thing, do you want to go in and be number two? I’m not saying if I got the opportunity I would say no straight away. I’d maybe think about it.”

An injury to her ankle just eight weeks before selection for the 2016 Olympics ended any faint hopes of Amy's selection for the Rio Games, and she says that although it was hard watching her team-mates win the final, she thinks it would have been harder had they had a poor games.

“I ruptured the ATFL [anterior talofibular ligament] in my ankle in February 2016," she said.

"It was eight weeks before Olympic selection.

“I think it would have been really hard if I was close to selection and never got picked, but I knew I was quite far away.

“Obviously you want to be there and I wanted to be part of it. Knowing a long time before I wasn’t going to make it makes it a bit easier, especially with the injuries.

“It was good to see them do well.

“It’s one of the weirdest situations as you are gutted as you wanted to win the gold medal, but obviously you’re happy for them. It’s one of the biggest conflicts I’ve had.”