END TO SEA CHANGES AND THE SANDBOXES

THE Football Review Committee's experimentation with Gaelic football officially came to a close last night with the final 'sandbox' game in Abbotstown.

- BY PAT NOLAN

Round Tower, Clondalkin, the home club of FRC chair Jim Gavin, played Fingallians in a game where, along with the new rules that we have become accustomed with since last January, a number of others were trialled.

Chief among them was the four-point goal, which was in play for the interprovincial series held at Croke Park last October, before being pulled days later. It was felt at the time, in a Championship where Division One teams face off against those from Division Four, conceding a succession of four-pointers would be too demoralising for the underdogs.