Ger wants two point rule axed

LOUTH boss Ger Brennan has welcomed the rule change around the kickout mark — but he also wants the two-point free binned.

- PAT NOLAN

From this weekend's preliminary quarter-finals, including Louth's tie with Donegal, impeding a player who has made a clean kick-out catch will simply result in a free from where it occurs.

Previously, it resulted in a 50-metre penalty, which often resulted in teams kicking a two-point free for what was often an unavoidable collision.

“It's the right thing to do,” Brennan (above) said yesterday. “It's been tough for referees to make a decision there and then.

“If the ball is thrown up between me and you, you grab a hold of it and I'm landing on the ground, like I can't get out of your way as quickly as the initial rule would like to think.

“So from that point of view I think it's hugely positive.”