John Fogarty: Cursed advanced mark could spoil the summer for Gaelic football fans

Better teams are availing of an alien rule which the playing rules group may not have envisaged would be utilised so pragmatically and efficiently by forwards

CALLING IT: Dublin’s Dean Rock claims an advanced mark in last year’s All-Ireland semi-final against Cavan at Croke Park. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Save for the Division 3 final, maybe it was right that Gaelic football sat out this past weekend.

With all the congratulatory slaps it had been receiving, it was coming perilously close to putting its back out.