Poacher warns teams will get innovative to break up keep-ball killing of games

Poacher predicts a championship of counties running down the clock from as far out as the 65th minute.

Leitrim’s Ryan O’Rourke and manager Steven Poacher. Pic: Tom O’Hanlon/Inpho

Teams are going to start deliberately breaching the three-up rule so as to interrupt the ugly trend of keep-ball at the end of games, Leitrim manager Steven Poacher has warned.

With Poacher predicting a championship of counties running down the clock from as far out as the 65th minute, he also envisages counties developing cynical ploys to counteract this anticlimactic end-game approach.