Paul Geaney: Dingle have a better spread of scorers than down the years
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Paul Geaney of Dingle in action. Pic Credit ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne
A better spread of scorers is making Dingle more of a force to be reckoned with, believes Paul Geaney.
In Sunday’s Munster semi-final against Clonmel Commercials, the Kerry club champions had six different scorers from play.
Dylan Geaney contributed most with five points followed by Geaney, Conor Geaney and Matthew Flaherty each adding two while Barry Dan and Tom O’Sullivan scored one.
That range can be another arrow in Dingle’s quill going into Sunday week’s final against Castlehaven, feels their captain.
“Maybe before we probably would have been easier to defend in that you just stopped the ball from coming in and we weren’t scoring then but I think we have a better spread, like Matthew there popped up with two in the first half, Tom is coming in with a couple of points.
“I was on the 40 in the second half, just gives us a couple of different more options. Barry O’Sullivan midfield is chipping in as well, obviously Mikey then as well.
"We actually have a more even spread of scores than down the years where it might have been just myself and Conor inside and then Dylan came on the scene and the three of us were playing inside but we’ve a healthier spread now so it’s good.”
In Thurles, Geaney’s cousin Dylan showed why Jack O’Connor brought him into the Kerry panel this past season and a recall is expected for his brother Conor.
“Conor was in previously under Peter Keane and didn’t get invited back in by Jack and I think he’s invited back in again this year, I’d say,” said Geaney.
He doesn’t forget how Dingle missed out on representing Kerry in 2015 when Legion were nominated to play in Munster instead of them as the Killarney team were in the county final, in which they defeated by South Kerry in a replay.
To be in a first ever Munster campaign is something the West Kerry club have truly embraced.
“Our first county final was 2012 and we won our first club championship in ‘15 and we didn’t get to go on to Munster due to Legion being involved in a county final, which they eventually lost but they went on and then we’ve been kind of there or thereabouts over the last couple of years,” Geaney remarked.
The rule has since changed whereby the club champions now qualify as Kerry representatives if a club doesn’t win the county championship, something that has occurred in four of the last five stagings.
“We would have looked at Kerins O’Rahillys (in Munster) last year and been very envious of their situation, because we played them in the county championship afterwards and we did a number on them,” recalled Geaney.
“We’d a great run in the county championship last year and felt we could have won it. And if we had done it, that we would have had an extended run in the All-Ireland club series.
"But we didn’t get that chance last year, so hopefully we can make up for that this year.”