No need for radical football overhaul, insists Jim Gavin

Jim Gavin’s team had all but said as much on the pitch, but the Dublin manager repeated the message afterwards by insisting that Gaelic football is not in need of any radical rules overhaul.

“The rules are fine the way they are,” he said after this most convincing of wins. “I don’t see any reason why we should change them.”

He hadn’t bought into the comments made by the merchants of gloom on the back of their defeat of Derry and here was proof that a team with Dublin’s creative instincts could overcome a massed defence.