Liam Sammon: Take power out of hands of ‘counter-productive’ Congress

Power over playing rule changes should be removed from the remit of Congress and entrusted to a new committee of past and present players, according to Galway football stalwart Liam Sammon.

Sammon believes the overuse of the hand-pass is killing Gaelic football and he was disgusted by the decision of this year’s Congress to vote down two separate motions aimed at curbing the number of hand-passes in a game.

The 1966 All-Ireland winning Galway footballer and former manager blasted as “crazy and counter-productive” the idea that a Congress is necessary to change playing rules, instead favouring the establishment of a 10-person committee comprising of high-profile football personnel.