Tackling properly the key to winning
For those who didn’t trawl through the transcripts from the GAA talkathon up in Derry, this is a recurring discussion which centres on the reward for high fielding in Australian Rules – when a player makes a clean catch (once the ball’s travelled ten yards) he’s allowed to choose whether to carry on playing or take a free-kick, in effect.
The attraction of such a rule in Gaelic football would be that you’d eradicate the swarming and crowding of players who make a high catch by opponents; at present if a player makes a clean catch in the middle of the field it’s almost counterproductive because as soon as he lands he’s surrounded by opposing players who bottle him up.
