Conor McManus backs jersey-pull black card rule that tidies up loophole

McManus’s old county team-mate Rory Beggan’s influence was there for everyone to see last season as the goalkeeper kicked 56 points, 54 from placed balls, and scored the most two-pointers in the championship with 24.

NEW RULE: Monaghan great Conor McManus has welcomed the new rule making a jersey pull one of the prescribed goal-scoring opportunity denying offences. Picture: ©INPHO/Evan Logan

Monaghan great Conor McManus has welcomed the new rule making a jersey pull one of the prescribed goal-scoring opportunity denying offences.

The infringement has been added to the list of fouls that if committed in preventing a goal opening will result in the defending player being black carded and his team conceding a penalty kick.