New rules frustrating football’s finest

THREE of the country’s top football managers converged on Dublin yesterday to launch the Allianz National Football League campaign but these events tend to be state-of-the-nation addresses as much as anything else.

So it was again on the capital’s southside where Joe Kernan, Conor Counihan and Kieran McGeeney were prodded for their thoughts on matters such as the close-season training ban and the experimental rules.

It’s a thankless enough task at the best of times, especially with GAA president Christy Cooney occupying a seat front and centre and within touching distance of the three wise men at the top table.