Ger Loughnane has added his voice to those calling for free-taking competitions to be changed to penalty shootouts.

Since the drama in the Gaelic Grounds on Bank Holiday Monday, Clare's All-Ireland winning captain Anthony Daly and former Limerick goalkeeper Joe Quaid have expressed the opinion that penalties would be better than 65-metre frees to decide matches where the teams are still level after extra time. Banner County legend Loughnane agrees:

"No doubt about it, I think it would be better if it was a penalty competition," the 1995 and 1997 All-Ireland winning manager says in The Irish Daily Star. "There's something fake about a non-contested free-taking competition at the end and it looked disorganised.

"If you had a goalie and somebody taking a penalty like soccer, I think it would have been even more dramatic. It's still a competition then. If you isolated the goalie and the penalty taker, with everybody else on the halfway line, it would be even more dramatic.

"I hope they're not against this because they would see themselves as aping soccer. Why not take elements of other other games and use them?"

Tweet

Most Read Stories