Derry and Tyrone call for clock/hooter and advantage rule to be culled

The Gavin-led group have informed counties they will be recommending the hooter be operative as they originally intended and each half will conclude when it sounds unless the ball is in flight or a free/45/sideline ball is being taken

A general view of the timing hooter. File picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

A number of Ulster counties are expected to contest some of the Football Review Committee (FRC) rules being made permanent at October’s Special Congress.

As FRC chairman Jim Gavin at a motions briefing last night revealed they will not propose a four-point goal or a “back-court” rule preventing passes going behind the halfway line once the attacking teams have brought the ball across it, some of the feedback from Derry and Tyrone was rejected by the committee.