Conor McKeon
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1,415 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 Jun
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But Donegal keep the ball so well now, even without the use of a goalkeeper, that they've disincentivised the press.
It's just like, well, do we want them to break us down when we're out of shape, trying to press them up the pitch?
Or do we at least want to get into shape?
And I think nearly every team now is just dropping back against Donegal.
There's another thing, just the first point that you said about going over to the sideline.
What Kerry did brilliantly in the All-Ireland final last year was when they set up their slow attack, if you want to call it that, when Donegal were fully formed, David Clifford would stand on the wing.
So it meant that he had Brendan McColl out of the Donegal shape.
And if you go back to the scores that Gavin White got, that Joe O'Connor got, they're bursting through a 10-man defence, which by definition has one player fewer in it and are slightly more stretched.
So in a situation where Paddy Clifford can't even get on the ball, like it was a little bit, it reminded me like the job that Lee Keegan did on Ciarán Kilkenny and that's 2017.
And Enda Smith one game in the replay.
You kind of just, you hound him, you hound him everywhere and it's almost like it's preferable if he doesn't get the ball.
But, like, Kerry aren't tied down to Paddy Clifford as a playmaker.
Yeah, they're seriously coming back to the boil.
They've learned the lessons from the All-Ireland final last year in a very serious way.
The refusal to admit the wrongness of the Paddy Clifford thing last year reminded me a bit about Dublin last year.
And Donegal in 2014, whereas at halftime it was very obvious what was happening.
And Dublin were like, no, this is our system and we have full faith in it.
And it was only in retrospect.
They had no recourse on the day to change.
And I think no team learns their lessons quite as well as Donegal do.
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