Galway captain Damien Comer believes the introduction of an 'offensive mark' would improve Gaelic football.

"We have the 'mark' from the kickouts. What about an offensive mark?'" he said on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport. 

"That would encourage more kick passing. So if the ball is delivered from inside the '65 and you catch a clean ball, you would then get an opportunity at a free score. It would encourage kicking, a skill that is not much in our game now as there are so many numbers back."

His suggestion was supported by Kildare manager Cian O'Neill, who was also in the RTÉ studio.

"It would definitely make the game more appealing and would provoke more thinking from a coaching perspective," O'Neill said.

"Take Kieran Donaghy, for example. Any time Kieran has played, the opposition have rarely left him on his own and when they have they have paid for it dearly.

"So if you do have to put a defender back that leaves you with another man further out the field. It provokes coaches into being better practitioners and provokes players into thinking differently about the game. It gives you another weapon that you could use offensively."

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