Needless inside mark has made Gaelic football duller not better

But Feely’s spectacular mark is the exception to the rule. The inside mark has not delivered truckloads of such scores, it has not rekindled the rose-tinted glory of the catch and kick game, it has not made Gaelic football better. If anything, it has been a contributing factor in slowing the game down. It is a needless mark.

As Kildare and Roscommon squared off in Tullamore on Sunday, their round-robin group counterparts Dublin and Sligo met in Cavan. In the fourth minute of that game, Dublin found themselves moving the ball laterally across the Sligo 45-metre line. We have seen far more of those marks than the one Feely sculpted in the closing moments of Kildare’s match last Sunday, because the rule allows for popped balls across the 45 to be called as marks. More often than not the inside mark slows down the game, sucks energy out of the contest, allows teams get themselves set up and so the game becomes more pedestrian and structured. The inside mark is a dollop of treacle.

In the other seven All-Ireland SFC games over the weekend, there was a combined total of six points scored from marks. There were no scores from marks in four of the eight games.

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