Billy Joe Padden impressed by Kerry attack

The Allianz Football League season may only be one game old, but Kerry have added a new dimension to their attacking play, according to Billy Joe Padden.

The former Mayo forward, who is working with eir Sports on their league coverage this spring, was extremely impressed with how Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s team performed against Donegal last Sunday. On a day when the Munster champions put up 2-17 in Letterkenny (all but seven points coming from their starting full-forward line of Jack Savage, Paul Geaney, and James O’Donoghue), one aspect of their tactical set-up, in particular, caught Padden’s eye.

“One thing that I thought was very clever was how they set up their full-forward line. Those three guys played really deep, almost standing on the end line at times, and they also spread out extremely wide. That meant that the open spaces around Donegal’s sweepers were stretched and it left them with an awful lot more ground to cover, plus it gave Kerry’s outfield players more room to kick the ball into.