Tomás Ó Sé: Long range shooting could scupper blanket defence

Tomás Ó Sé suggests that the exhibition of long range shooting from Monaghan and Clare in Clones could be an another way to overcome the blanket defence.

Rather than going through it, teams with accurate shooters should think about going over it.

Monaghan edged out Clare by five points in an enormously high scoring contest in All-Ireland SFC Group 4, condemning the visitors to a certain exit with a game still to play.

Jack McCarron lit up the game, scoring 0-09 in total, the vast majority from play, Conor McCarthy running up 1-02 from play. On the other side, Cathal O'Connor and Jamie Malone clipped over 0-03 and 0-02 from play apiece.

Watching it, Ó Sé was struck by how many points were nailed from long range.

"You're always taught to defend the D, that area is always sacrosanct. You defend it hard," Ó Sé observed on The Sunday Game.

"An awful amount of the scores (in Clones) were outside the D.

"I do think you will find teams looking at this" Tomás Ó Sé puts the spotlight on the longer range kicking that was to the fore between Monaghan and Clare #rtegaa #SundayGame