Maurice Brosnan: In the new Gaelic football, what we presume to know is permanently under threat

There is no expectation on any player to be perfect. This is organised chaos; the measure of a great player isn’t their immunity to errors; it is how they react to them.

Niall Scully's performance for Dublin against Galway showed the game is about far more than scores. Pic: ©INPHO/James Lawlor

Before the Football Review Committee implemented their grand transformation of the game, they canvassed the public for their five favourite skills. All five responses related to being on the ball.

Now, the natural response to that is, well, of course. Is that not the pure ambition for every dreamer on any field? To hold the ball, catch it, kick it, and engineer all kinds of wonderful scores. There is no harm in such a desire. That said, success is about so much more than unvarnished attack. An entertaining spectacle is about more than scores. For teams and the sport to thrive, it must be about more.