John Fintan Daly: Gaelic football - A game in crisis and the nuclear option

Here's an idea: force teams in possession to pass forward (or a least lateral) until they get beyond the opposition 45.

FOOTBALL CRISIS: John Fintan Daly Snr before the AIB GAA Football All-Ireland Junior Club Championship Final. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Few can dispute that the modern game of Gaelic Football Is terminally ill and requires radical surgery. 

Essentially, all sport is a form of entertainment for those that watch it and should be a healthy/enjoyable activity for those that take part in it. By any objective metric, it fails on both fronts.