Former All Ireland final referee Brian Gavin believes that a sin bin should be introduced in hurling.
The issue is set to be discussed at GAA Congress later this month. Under a new proposal, the prevention of a goal scoring opportunity with a deliberate pull down, a deliberate trip with the hurley, or careless use of the hurley would be punished with a penalty and a ten minute sin bin.
Gavin, who refereed four All Ireland finals, says that cynical play must be stamped out. “This has crept into the game more and more in the last two or three years. We saw many incidents last year of lads going through on goal and two arms grabbed around him and pulling him to the ground or else he was going through and a hurl was put between his legs to deliberately trip him. We’ve seen four or five incidents and I don’t think that’s sport and I don’t think anyone wants to see that. We have to say that enough is enough. We can’t sit down to look at a hurling match and a man being rugby tackled to the ground on the 13 or 20 metre line.”
Listen back to the full interview with Brian Gavin from Friday’s Lár Na Páirce.
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