Cooney calls for wait-and-see attitude to new rules

GAA president Christy Cooney has asked hurling and football inter-county managers to reserve their judgements on the latest batch of experimental rules.

Cooney was addressed a gathering of managers at a specially-convened meeting in Croke Park on Tuesday night where the raft of changes was discussed, two weeks into the new season.

Inter-county bosses have had a major say in similar experiments before, especially with the ‘sin bin’ tryout which was abandoned in 2006, though statistics demonstrated that fouls had decreased while scores had been on the up when it was utilised.