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Published 09:59 28 Jan 2015 GMT
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Geaney is in his final year at UCC and will be in action in the Sigerson Cup against Cork rivals CIT. The Dingle man has suffered with a number of injuries during his career, especially a back problem, but he doesn't agree with a proposal that no senior inter-county players should play at third level. He feels that any issue of burnout is more of a problem at minor and Under-21 level.
'I don't know about this burnout. They're trying to get inter-county players out of Sigerson, then there's this, that and the other. There's the club debate, maybe compressing the Championship will be helpful, especially for the club players. I can remember three years ago when I was just a club player. I was frustrated because there was maybe only two league games, county league games in the summer time. That's frustrating and you're training all year. It's a disaster really for club players. Maybe that's the only thing that they could do, shorten the season a small bit but as far as burnout goes, that's more applicable to minor and Under-21 players than it would be for senior players who are playing for the colleges.'
Geaney is in line to start for Kerry on Sunday but has missed several clashes with the Westerners in the past due to injury and not making the starting 15. He also missed out on the infamous clash in February of 2013 when Kerry were held scoreless for an entire half.
'I was named to start. I pulled my hamstring during the week with UCC. We played UUJ in the first round of the Sigerson and I pulled a hamstring there so I missed out on that game. I've had bad luck actually in the League against Mayo – I was named to start last year and I didn't. Didn't travel, was named to start the year before and didn't travel. I think it was 2011 I was named to start on the team and didn't start so I've had bad luck. Hopefully this Sunday now I'll have no bad luck and I'll start against them.'
One man who won't be available to start on Sunday will be Kieran Donaghy, the Kerry captain for 2015. He's absent due to his commitments with Austin Stacks. Geaney feels that Donaghy's new role won't make a massive difference to the side because of the forward's part in the team as it is.
'Kieran's a leader anyway, he's not going to become more of a leader because he's captain. He was always one of the main leaders on the team. He was always great with all the younger fellas and even when he wasn't starting his attitude was 100 per cent. I wouldn't expect anymore of out of Kieran because he was was always giving 100 per cent.'

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