John Greene

has crept into the game is that there's an almost a rugby style preamble to the set pieces now.

So if you were to watch, if you were to watch a goal kicker in a game of rugby, they'll have their routine or a free taker in Gaelic football.

They have their routine, you know, they pull the hair back and maybe stick the gum shield into your sock and you take this certain amount of steps sideways and a few backwards.

Declan Rice was doing that last weekend against Manchester United.

It seemed to take 45 seconds to a minute for a throw in or a free kick to take place.

That's the problem.

It just takes... It's taking time out of the game.

And rugby has a very similar issue.

There's some of the rule changes and, you know, we have this law of unintended consequences and the FRC in Gaelic football that was always the fear.

I don't think it has...

taken place as yet but there was always the fear that this real change will trigger something that we haven't quite conceived of yet and that we might be regretting making these changes in years to come but just one little example from a rugby point of view is you know the banning of the so-called escort under the high kicks well now every team is just pumping the ball into the air and the scramble for possession on the back of it has become a bit unsightly and that leads to more scrums more penalties more breaks in the play

So that I think came from a good place, a place of good intentions, but it has led to maybe the game actually reverting a little bit.

Teeth will find a way to... We didn't have time last year to... Exactly.

Someone said to me this morning, and it seemed a bit harebrained, but the more I thought about it, the more sense it made.

Like, say, for example...

Manchester United left five players on the halfway line for every Arsenal corner kick.

And all of their attacking players.

They would all have to be marked.

But if you're really susceptible to a set piece.

So you leave, from a United point of view, you leave Lammans, you leave Maguire.