What do you all think about this announcement? It is made up of a good blend of past players, managers and people involved in GAA most of their lives in some way. There is a good mix I feel also from each province, but the key question I feel needs answering is whether their review is going to be taken on board fully or not? I mean we see Galway hurling championship for example used a similar commitee theme to revamp our club sense, but its only in its first year.
I have not fully read up on its review areas, etc, but are they going to look at format of the championship, rules, grey-areas, etc? Championship format issues have come up enough on HS, so instead I want to know what YE think this commitee could and should do to make football better regarding rules introduced to help the game become more skillful and skill-based?
We see James Horan of Mayo come out and protect his Mayo team from the deemed 'lack of' strength against a big Cork team and in fairness he said they have more work to do, but I wonder if this commitee introduces things like a mark for high fielding from kick-outs that go past the 45 for example, would the games key skills become better and make the games better? Would such skill based rules introduction maybe reduce IMO the over-the-top physical training that has come into the game in the last 10 years and bring us back to the basic games of man on man and a wide, open game of football??
Your taughts please..

pridengalway (Galway) - Posts: 327 - 11/05/2012 09:50:25    1169897

Good point on wether or not they will be listened to or not.

Was Kieran McGeeney not supposed to be on that commitee, or is that another recently formed commitee?

I know I definatley seen his name on some commitee after this years congress. Would be good to have someone like him and JBM on a commitee like that, but again, only if the commitee is being listened too.

Jinxie (Meath) - Posts: 6348 - 11/05/2012 10:10:54    1169905

Rules - Require the ball to be kicked from behind the defensive 45 to beyond the 65; opposition gets a free if the ball falls short or takes possession on an interception

omahant (USA) - Posts: 3452 - 12/05/2012 21:39:29    1170932

We don't need a review on the state of football, things progress naturally and in 5 or 10 years the current style of play will be out of date. It's stupid making a no-play zone between the 45 and the 65 anyway, and will stop players from being able to run through it and therefore slow down the game.

OgraAnDun (Down) - Posts: 406 - 13/05/2012 09:41:01    1170971

re: ograandun........could amend to allow solo run, or allow a pass into zone from behind the 45 but no passing within zone....you would rather change nothing......the game is perfect I suppose?

omahant (USA) - Posts: 3452 - 13/05/2012 18:28:57    1171240