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Clare manager Colm Collins believes that a second referee will be required to manage the GAA’s proposed trial of experimental rules in Gaelic football.<\/p>\nClare manager Colm Collins believes that a second referee will be required to manage the GAA’s proposed trial of experimental rules in Gaelic football.<\/p>\n
The five rules are the introduction of a sin bin, a limit of three consecutive hand-passes, forward-only sideline kicks, the extension of the mark to inside the 20-meter line, and a new kick-out protocol.<\/p>\n
Although he’d have come up with different proposals, Collins welcomes the initiative to improve the game. The main problem he sees with the changes, however, is for referees.<\/p>\n
“The main difficulty is the refereeing, because referees at the moment have enough to do. These are things that would probably demand a second referee. That\u2019s something they might look at,” he told Morning Ireland.<\/p>\n
“From my own point of view, it probably wouldn\u2019t have been what I would have come up with.<\/p>\n
“You have got to think about what can be enforced in the existing system without a second referee. One thing that could be quite easily enforced would be if you take the ball over the halfway line, you can\u2019t go back with it.<\/p>\n
“Also, a rule whereby you can only have so many people in your own defensive area. Those are two I would like myself.”<\/p>\n
He approves of the forward-only sideline kicks and the sin bin, and is happy to trial the handpass limit to improve kicking.<\/p>\n
“The one thing in relation to the mark is that I think it should be a high catch over the head as opposed to a catch in the chest or stomach.”<\/p>\n
The GAA\u2019s Standing Committee on the Playing Rules will consult with players, coaches, referees and officials this month before a possible trial during the 2019 National League.<\/p>\n
Under GAA rule, changes to the playing rules of Gaelic Games are only possible in years divisible by five, making 2020 a year that permits changes to the playing rules.<\/p>\n