Proposed New Hurling Rules
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Replying To Pikeman96: "@Tadhg2020 - I've actually had a look at that Tony Kelly sideline cut that sent the 2022 Munster Final to extra time. The one where you even said yourself "thankfully it was only worth one point". It's on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZDPppu0O6E
Now, if that had been worth two points, would have been very hard on Barry Nash.
Do your job properly by getting to the ball first and turning to try make a clearance, and you end up forced over the sideline and concede something that would have been the losing of the game for your team.
But don't do your job properly. Be slow off the mark such that a Clare man gets to the ball first, and then haul him down out there to concede a free. Worst that can happen is one point to make you draw the game, rather than two points to make you lose it.
It's an extreme examaple, but it's an example all the same of where you'd end up better off to foul than play the game properly." There are pros and cons to everything. I tend to focus on the positive impact, ie the skill that it would promote. It is a thing of beauty when executed well. Thats my opinion anyway.
It also has the secondary benefit of players working harder to keep the ball in play due to the potential exposure to a 2 point effort. I acknowledge that sometimes you cant as you point out in your example but I think the benefit to the game as a spectacle outweighs the unintended consequences such as that example.
I think we are getting bogged down on one rule that may or may not survive when the real potential damage to the game , as we know and love it, lies elsewhere.
Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 769 - 24/09/2026 14:21:39
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Replying To Tadhg2020: " Replying To Pikeman96: "@Tadhg2020 - two points for a score from a sideline cut was previously trialled during the National Hurling League in 2005.
But you're correct that there's been further talk of it on a number of occasions since then, and consideration of it in this piece from 2019 is still as valid now as it was then:
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport-columnists/arid-30896205.html" Having just read that article I think that the approach to the sideline cut has changed somewhat since then. A number of players were listed there as being proponents of the art but its rare that its attempted in the modern game. Its far more common to see a short one in an attempt to retain possession. Thats the current reality and that leads to rucks. Therefore the reward of 2 points is a carrot to reinvigorate an area or skill in the game that was diminishing just as the 2 point arc in football has revived long distance point scoring in that game."
Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 769 - 24/09/2026 14:23:29
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I'd like to the 40m arc incorporated somehow - maybe for puck outs in lieu of proposed 45m line?
How about a 'football reverse' - two pts for scores 'inside the arc', one from all distances and angles outside, with five pts then for a goal?
omahant (USA) - Posts: 3609 - 04/10/2026 14:16:00
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