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Squareball rule change

  • 15-04-2012 2:21pm
    #1
    Squareball2010
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    "Delegates voted overwhelmingly to change Gaelic football's controversial 'square ball' rule at Congress in Killenard, Co. Laois yesterday.

    Having surprisingly failed to receive the necessary support after it was trialled during the Allianz Football League two years ago, 90 per cent of delegates backed the change on this occasion. Under the new rule, a player may enter the small square before the ball is delivered in open play. In set play, the old rule continues to apply, meaning a player is not allowed to enter the square before the ball arrives.

    "It is an eminently sensible change and one the game needs," former Armagh captain Jarlath Burns said in tabling the motion.

    "It is extremely difficult for a referee to adjudicate (the old rule) and virtually impossible (for a player) to execute; it requires a player to enter the square after the ball comes in at maybe 70 miles an hour. We are not proposing it for hurling, there doesn't seem to be a problem there.""

    So in plain simple English this would mean a player can enter the square when the ball is kicked in open play and doesn't need to wait until the ball enters the square first. Set Plays remain as before however and the player cannot be in the square before the ball arrives!

    Any idea when this is going to be implemented (I'm guessing 2013)?

    Do you think this will solve the always controversial calls that resulted from the previous rule as it was?

    Trying to remember was it much of a success when it was trialled in the league 2 years ago....:pac:


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