Colm Keys

team officials are treated differently.

And the rule book states that.

And it's any physical interference in that Category 4 offence, any physical interference, there is no sliding scale.

You can say it's minimal or it's more forceful, but the rule doesn't allow for that.

And that was the case with Gerard Brennan too.

And this was voted in three years ago by an overwhelming majority of

I think it was 98% of those that voted for it.

And yet when you hold it up to the light in incidents like Ger Brennan and now with Jim McGuinness and you see that this all-encompassing rule potentially puts these two men...

Jim McGuinness potentially, and we don't know the outcome yet or what's in the referee's report just yet, but he potentially misses the rest of the season for Donegal.

And it really is, Conor says, it really is punitive.

And I think we will see a change to this at the end of the year or into next year where there will be degrees of force related to this.

The rule was brought in to try and clean up the sidelines and the sidelines are in chaos.

There are far too many people there.

We saw that in Galway with the Dublin and Galway episode.

We certainly saw it last Saturday in Killarney.

There are more Ishkas getting involved at every level, being shown yellow cards in almost every other hurling game too.

So it's in chaos.

And that's why the rule was brought in.

But obviously it has captured two of the biggest fish now.

I think Jim McGuinness will be extremely lucky to avoid a ban.