Enda McEvoy: Timeouts, scoring zones and a ban on the roll lift - does hurling need rule changes too?

Enda McEvoy canvassed a panel of the finest hurling minds to see what they'd change about the game

RED RISING: Shane Kingston of Cork during the Allianz Hurling League Division 1A match against Wexford at Chadwicks Wexford Park in Wexford. Photo by Tom Beary/Sportsfile

Those experimental rules in Gaelic football. Long overdue, badly needed and refreshingly imaginative. All those arteries that scream for unclogging. Not every recommendation will work but that’s not the point. The GAA’s willingness to undertake the journey is almost as important as the shape and topography of whatever undiscovered bourne will be reached.

Football needs to be refreshed, redeemed and renewed. That hurling needs no such processes doesn’t mean it can’t by definition do without a judicious buffing either. To believe otherwise constitutes snobbery of a rare form. And yes, caveat emptor and all of that.