Sligo manager Niall Carew is frustrated by the lack of a defined tackle in gaelic football.

The Yeats County lost key man Brian Curran to a yellow and then a black card during Sunday's narrow Division Three league loss in Limerick and Carew points out that he can't coach his players skills that don't exist:

"If you don't have a definite tackle, I can't coach a tackle, because there isn't a tackle," he reasons in The Irish Examiner. "There is a different interpretation every week.

"Unless they bring in the Australian Rules football tackle, which is release the ball when you are tackled and then everyone knows if you don't release the ball it is a free against you. Unless they do that, you are going to have lads like me giving out every week.

"Games are so tight in all these divisions it will come down to a few decisions by a referee. The sending off was definitely a turning point. I'd say we probably had two shots on goal after that.

"Brian Curran is a big player for us and is one of our leaders. We struggled then against the extra man. I don't know what Brian is supposed to do, let him through? Just open up and say, 'sure, go ahead there'."

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