Enda McGinley believes Gaelic football is just “a tweak or two away” from a golden era.

As Jim Gavin and the GAA’s Football Review Committee look at ways of improving the game as a spectacle, the three-time Tyrone All-Ireland winner has warned against taking a scalpel to the playing rules.

"The skill level, the fitness level, the ability of our modern players, it is stunning," he told the RTÉ GAA podcast.

"The game is a tweak or two away from being its greatest ever era, genuinely. Dublin have come back into the pack, Kerry haven’t unearthed their next golden generation, I think it's exceptionally even.

"If we can break the shackles of the blanket defences, the game will take off, but don't expect the managers to do it because the most effective way to get results at the minute is with a blanket, dropping men back and filling the 45-yard line to your goal to close down the shooting areas."

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