The chair of the Football Review Committee explains that new rules could be trailled next year and implemented for the 2026 season
Stated simply, the focus is to provide “the best possible games experience for players and spectators”. At Croke Park on Friday morning, former Dublin manager Jim Gavin, now chair of the Football Review Committee , outlined the thinking behind the wide-ranging review of Gaelic football that is under way.
Asked about the ambitiousness of the scheduling, Gavin acknowledged that it would be challenging to produce new rules for trialling in the 2025 national league. He also referenced a previous football review, chaired by the late Eugene McGee, which was the first to launch a mass-consultation exercise and which introduced initiatives, such as the black card in response to widespread concerns among stakeholders about cynical play.
Among the concerns of the 2012 FRC, besides cynical fouling, were refereeing inconsistency and the lack of high catching in the game. Current preoccupations are short kickouts, uninterrupted bouts of keep-ball and lack of contested possession. Burns said that the necessity of trialling in championship had been brought home by Gavin’s comments about his own attitude to rules experimentation.
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