Meath legend Sean Boylan says the GAA should look into introducing a four-point penalty in order to punish cynical play.

Boylan is part of the playing rules committee chaired by Jarlath Burns, which has recommended a number of measures to Central Council including the mark and solo free.

Speaking with the Irish Examiner, the four-time All-Ireland winning manager admitted that while the black card has helped "an awful lot", he still feels it hadn't done enough to cut out cynical play:

"Why bring it in if it's not going to have meaning?" he asked.

Boylan believes that punishing cynical fouling by awarding penalties to the opposing team would be the way forward to stamping out cynicism.

"I put it to you this way: say somebody pulls a player down and there's a minute to go. For doing that, instead of a black card or a yellow card there's a penalty but that penalty would be four points and not three points," he stated.

"Those are things I would love to see happening. In other words, you would be taking the decisions on the field of play and not in a boardroom. I would just love to see us getting to that stage.

"Are you talking about rewriting (rules) to bring clarity? When you see lots of things being sorted out (in a boardroom) that's not the spirit of where we come from or what it's about. That's no disrespect to people involved in that profession but this is a game."

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