Tony Leen: Kerry still searching for that last piece of the jigsaw

A Barry John Keane, if you will. A fourth banana. Or perhaps a third with respect to Paudie Clifford’s other responsibilities out around the prairies. An assassin. Whatever the job specification, Kerry will know it when they have it.

FOURTH BANANA: Kerry’s manager Jack O'Connor is still searching for that last piece of the jigsaw. Pic credit: James Crombie, Inpho.

THEY are, by any fair-minded metric, three of the country’s ten best forwards. David Clifford, Sean O’Shea and Paudie Clifford bring different ingredients to the cocktail, but they are undoubtedly in the mix. Potency, power, precision.

And they all play and perform consistently for Kerry. There are few inter-county football teams with such a sharp variety to their attack so where is the sense coming from that Jack O’Connor and his management seriously need the league to bolster their arsenal in the shape of an additional scoring threat for the summer cut-and-thrust.