Mike Quirke: New rules may make coaches re-evaluate a midfielder's most desirable trait
BUZZ: There's an excitement among supporters when a long bomb goes into midfield. Pic: Stephen McCarthy, Sportsfile
FOR the past few years involved with Kerry, a decent chunk of our training time was taken up with becoming better in ‘slow attacks’. Too often the Kingdom had come unstuck against the modern style of defending deep with big numbers behind the ball. It became an Achilles heel.
We’d set up half pitch scenarios where the defending team would have 15 inside their 45, with the attacking team getting several opportunities to break it down before flipping it over and repeating the dose. It was hard claustrophobic graft – akin to stuffing David Clifford and co into a phone box with a team of bouncers manning the exit and waiting to pounce.
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