International Rules requires ‘change of mindset’ to continue

IT will need more than a tightening up of the playing rules if the International Rules Series is to continue, Cork GAA Secretary Frank Murphy believes.

He was responding, at yesterday’s annual convention, to a comment by referee Michael Collins, who was involved in the stormy second test in Melbourne that there should be stricter penalties for serious offences.

Mr Collins, a Clonakilty delegate, said that the current rules carried yellow-card penalties for incidents which would merit a red card in their own game. Apart from problems around the tackle, he said a major problem for a referee was the incidence of players ‘being belted’ on the ground while the game was in progress.