Former Tyrone defender John Lynch says the GAA as a whole should be concerned about speculation linking Cathal McShane with a move to the AFL. Last year, we produced a player, a player winning an All-Star in his first year at full-forward, and bang he could be gone. “For the preservation of Tyrone football, it would be disappointing. For McShane personally, it’s a professional sports career and potentially a great standard of living so you can’t be critical of that. On the matter of the advanced mark which further imitates the AFL game, Lynch says: “It’s an alien rule to Gaelic football and a knee-jerk reaction to defensive, slow build-up football.

Source: Irish Examiner January 02, 2020 20:37 UTC