The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

A few of them would be interesting whether they will be all passed. But a ordinary Club game would be hard to official with so many rule changes. Passing back to the keeper needs to be gone, 3 up at all times would be good.

GAA change the rules nearly every year not a easy job for a ref.

Be tough yea. The Railway Cup games are being televised on Friday and Saturday, see whats it like then.

It was more a blunder by the umpires. In fairness to Noel Mooney it was a quick break by Laragh and he was chasing the play. The umpires need to be spotting that though. What’s the point of them being there?

Jim Giblin was also on the sideline I think (he and John Emo were linesmen) and he definitely should have seen it as the whole stand could.

Regardless, Laragh were the better of two bad teams. Unless they book lads flights home for next year, they’ll be joining their neighbours quickly.

I feel it'll self police. As both need 3 back, if one more goes up, then the defence or such highlights to the linesman. Ref will cop it and eventually they simply won't try it if giving away a foul.

It’ll be interesting to see how the new rules will affect the coaching of players. For example, WAC mentioned that Cavan played two nippy light forwards in Daragh Lovett & Devine, I think it was, to make the most of the reduced cover in defence.

Also, I wonder what will happen re the 3 up/3 down in juvenile games where it’s 11 or 13 a side and sometimes a reduced pitch.

In all fairness referees already are struggling to police the rules that are there so it’s going to be very difficult now.

Always very wary when I hear of rule changes. Enforcement of rules is not exactly prevalent in GAA culture.

Tap and go is good addition. 3 at the back ok, for a brave team will mean all their runners can't be tracked and maybe more options off the shoulder in opposition half although difficult for referees.

Some of the others sound daft. And still nothing on swarm tackling or steps. If 4 steps was enforced properly and the tackle rule, the game would benefit. Pulling and dragging, wrapping an opponent up, throwing an arm into them as they pass, grabbing their trailing arm. These are all illegal under the rules. So is taking 10 steps.

1 v 1 thrown ins, scoring zones, 2 point kicks and 4 point goals

Think those will be fine. Goals used to be 5 before. 4 is OK. 2 points too. If the game opens up better we'll be used to these in no time

Man is a clown and well known to be. He's fairly wrong in what he says on his personal twitter. He would do well to soul search, keep quiet, and keep off pitches in future

Could you give any insight to what you believe was said between the two? And he didn’t square up to McCabe, he started to physically shoulder him.

If his kids were in the stand, he should have been more concerned with caring for them and celebrating the win with them rather than going on the pitch to get involved in an altercation.

I don't see what problems they're trying to solve. Will probably lead to more problems.

Zones will leave it harder to referee and doubt it will lead to any improvements in open play. Changing points for goals is pretty random.

If you want to open the game up enforce the steps and tackle rule and ban the swarm tackle. Then tweak rules afterwards by all means if you think it's needed. That's my take on it.

If there is 3 up at all times more chance of teams creating goal chances. A lot of teams happy to just fist it over the bar. Putting it up to 4 pts might give them more incentive to look for goal.

The 2pts for outside the 40 will likely cause issues. Not like they have var to fix it.