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Colm Boyle

Colm Boyle column: Time to dump the square ball rule and limit the handpass

Club activity meant that I didn’t get to see the Cavan-Armagh game live last Saturday evening.

But as I checked in on Twitter as to how the game had gone, I couldn’t miss numerous tweets about Ben Crealey’s goal for Armagh and how many thought it should have been disallowed for a square ball offence.

Having watched it numerous times it’s still not conclusive whether Crealey had one foot in the square as Ciaran Mackin put the ball across. But surely it’s time to get rid of such an outdated rule? What is the actual point of it?

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