Paul Rouse: The positives and negatives of the new football rule changes

On a personal level, at this stage, if pressed to say whether these new rules are good, I can only honestly say: “I don’t know”

Referee David Coldrick instructs Darren McCurry of Ulster before he takes a free kick.

Three positives 

1. The single most important aspect of the Interprovincials weekend is that it happened at all. It took a lot of work by a lot of people to get proposed rules to the point where some of the best footballers in the country were lining out to trial them in Croke Park in the middle of October.