Clare’s defenders can expect to be put under pressure by Kerry’s forwards in this evening’s Munster SFC semi-final in more ways than one if comments by Paul Geaney are anything to go by.

The scoring threat that Geaney and his full-forward line colleagues, David Clifford and James O’Donoghue, pose is obvious to all but the Dingle forward revealed that they have been working hard on their tackling technique under coach Donie Buckley with the aim of creating scoring opportunities by turning the opposition over close to their own goals.

“It’s the time teams are probably least likely to be conscious of being attacked is when they have the ball,” the Dingle clubman pointed out to GAA.ie.

“Once a team gets turned over you can see how long it takes for the mindset to change from attack to defence so if you do that in the back line, it’s easy to attack because everyone is going to shoot forward.

“Whereas, how many guys on the opposition team are going to turn around and shoot back? Even if you are a back, it’s probably less likely. There’s scores to be got if you turnover up front, everyone knows that. Implementing it then is the thing.”

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