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Published 17:49 14 Sept 2015 BST
Updated 17:55 14 Sept 2015 BST
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It is just so hard to pin Cluxton down. If you squeeze up he'll kick it over you and he has [Paul] Flynn and Connolly, who are two six-foot-plus guys who he can kick it out over midfield to. It's not just as easy as watching on television: 'Why don't you squeeze up! Squeeze up!' There is a lot more that goes into it than that.Mayo elected to squeeze the middle of the field in their two semi-final meetings with Dublin, which saw Cluxton repeatedly pop a quick kick to corner-back Jonny Cooper. Mayo were eventually beaten in a replay but four-time All-Ireland winner Cooper defended their approach, describing it as "brave".
"It didn't amaze me because every team takes a different approach to him because he is so, so good," said the 32 year old. "They obviously made a conscious decision that they weren't going to push up and that they were allowing Dublin take the ball out uncontested. That's a brave decision and you live and die by those decisions."
Chalk it down to pre-match "cute-hoorism" if you will, but the Gooch claimed that Éamonn Fitzmaurice's Kerry are struggling to formulate a plan to combat Cluxton's kick-outs.
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