MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Men on front line scratching heads

The sideline regulation controversy is not an obsession for this corner of the newspaper — not just yet anyway — but the matter continues to raise questions, despite Croke Park’s keenness to draw a line under the matter.

Consider some comments in the last couple of weeks on the matter.

Galway selector Tom Helebert, who spent the Tribesmen’s first league outing in the stand as a result of the new rules, said after his side had beaten Kilkenny: “This [new rule] doesn’t have a basis where we can figure out where it’s coming from. “Last year when we were competing in Croke Park and elsewhere, we understood the protocols and the rules that were in place and if you breached the rule you got fined.