Kilkenny senior hurling manager Brian Cody isn’t impressed with the new GAA rules. The introduction of the new yellow card rules which many believe are designed more for football than hurling may be hurting the game. Brian Cody was speaking in Croke Park on Tuesday last at the launch of the 2009 All-Ireland minor championship.
‘’There is nothing dirty in the game, as far as I’m concerned,” says the Kilkenny manager. “Television, the way it highlights games, has done away with that.
“You might have an isolated incident, but the rules are there to govern those things anyway. If it’s a red-card offence then he’s sent off. And that’s fine. If he gets a yellow then that’s a warning and if he’s stupid enough after that then he’ll go then.
“But to be gone for the match on a yellow card, I don’t like it. It’s a shame to see a player getting a yellow card maybe five minutes into the game. It could happen in a Leinster final, or an All-Ireland semi-final or final. For maybe a clumsy challenge, but certainly not something deliberate. I don’t think players go out to deliberately do anything stupid. I don’t think there is any problem in the game.”
The Monaghan County Board have already voted to oppose the adoption of the experimental rules when they come before congress in Cork next weekend.
