Brian Flanagan, the new manager of Kildare, expresses concerns about the severity of the punishment for breaking the new 'three-up' rule in Gaelic football, stating that it disrupts the flow of the game.
New Kildare boss Brian Flanagan has questioned whether the punishment for breaking the new ‘three-up’ rule is too harsh, saying it “sucks the energy out of the game”. Flanagan saw his side prosper as a result of rule on three separate occasions in the first half of Saturday’s challenge game against Galway in Newbridge, which the Connacht champions won by 2-18 to 0-17.
With Galway players straying past the newly-marked hatched halfway line to leave only two teammates in the opposition half, referee David Gough awarded three 20-metre frees to Kildare, as per rule, with Alex Beirne slotting all of them. Another aspect to the rule came to light in the second half when Kildare were penalised, though Matthew Tierney took up the option of shooting from outside the new scoring arc and converted for a two-pointer. Flanagan said: “I absolutely get that there needs to be a punishment for that if it's breached, in order for it to be a thing. But it actually sucks the energy out of the game a bit because the crowd and everybody is looking around, what was that blown for? “Everyone is a little bit unsure for that 10, 15 seconds. The ball is carried up sometimes from 100 yards back up the field and it's kicked over from 20 yards and we reset on the kick-out. But I don't know is that adding a huge amount to the game, so I think that's something to look at. Whether the punishment matches the crime at the minute, I'm not quite sure.” When it was put to Flanagan’s Galway counterpart Padraic Joyce that players won’t transgress in this regard with the same frequency come the Allianz League once they adapt, he replied: “You wouldn’t think so but we’ve got three weeks training done and we’re still making the same mistakes. We’re playing in-house games and we’re still doing it her
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