Joe Brolly is full of praise for the new rules brought in to try and save Gaelic football from the blanket defence.
JIM Gavin will be ‘sitting in a hot tub smoking a fine cigar sipping champagne’ after Derry vs Kerry according to Joe Brolly. The Derry native made the claim while still riding the high…
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I watched the first match of the league - Galway and Armagh - and is was pretty much as you were. What I don't understand is that the new rules require three forwards and three defenders from a team to stay in their own half at all times, but I don't see how this addresses issues with the blanket defence, where teams can still sit their players in front of the goal and the other team will have three less players to try and break through. In other words the three up three back rule means both teams just cancel each other out.
I thought a good idea would have been to introduce a stop clock - like in basket ball. So when a team gets the ball they have 90 seconds to do something. If they don't score after 90 seconds the ball goes to the opposition. It would mean teams couldn't just sit back with all their players because they would
have to attack.