Paul Geaney: Now the real stuff starts for Kerry

The numbers tell the change in Paul Geaney’s tale. Last summer, he played 279 minutes of championship football but started and finished just one game, substituted on three occasions and coming off the bench twice.

Two games down this summer and he’s been on the field for the first and last shrills of the whistle, almost 150 minutes in his account and 2-8 to his name.

The 2015 season, which finished with shoulder surgery and the removal of cysts from his spinal cord that were troubling his sciatic nerve, is getting smaller in his rearview mirror.