Roscommon manager John Evans believes a second referee is needed in gaelic football.

Evans believes that the game has evolved to such an extent that it is now impossible for one man to officiate over a match:

"I think the referees are coming under unnecessary criticism and I would be in favour of something that would support them, whether that would be through their linesmen or through having a second referee or even a third referee," he says in The Irish Examiner. "I can't see one referee seeing it all.

"I mean that in the most positive light of all. If I had my way, I would most definitely have two referees.

"At the moment I would incorporate them [linesmen]. I think they are being incorporated with the talk-throughs. Certainly give them more power.

"Two referees would definitely need to come into it. We have taken the game to huge high levels of fitness, to high levels of skill. You saw the pace that has come into the game, the nature of the defensive tackles that are there.

"It is very strong, it is crunching stuff but to have one referee trying to decide all of this while you have the whole lot of this going on at the one time, I don't think that works." Tweet

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