New Gaelic football rules face road test in 2019 league

A suite of experimental rules are to be road-tested in next season’s Allianz Football League with a mind to them being introduced permanently from the 2020 Championship.

The standing playing rules committee has set out five proposed changes to improve the game as a spectacle - the sin bin, a limit of three consecutive hand-passes, forward-only sideline kicks, the extension of the mark to inside the 20-metre line, and a new kick-out protocol.