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Summary of Playing Rule Changes 2010

The GAA Congress 2010 passed a number of playing rule changes relevant to football and hurling which will come into effect in all games played on or after May 15th 2010. In total there are six changes specific to football only and three specific to hurling, while a further six changes affect both codes, A summary of the changes is as follows:

Football Only:

Handpass – If a player handpasses the ball using the open hand, there must be a definite underhand striking action.
Penalty Kicks – All penalty kicks will now be taken from 11 metres out
Kick Outs – All kick outs will now be from the 13 metre line
Sideline kicks – Line balls must be kicked from outside the boundary line
Illegal Charge - It is illegal for a charge to be made on a player kicking the ball.
Definition of bounce - The redefinition of the bounce has the effect that the “Basketball Type”, bounce, per se, is not a foul.

Hurling only:

Puck Outs - The penalty for taking a puck-out from outside the small rectangle is changed from the award of a 65m free to the opposition to a throw in the ball on the defenders’ 20m line.
Handpass - The ball must be released and struck with a definite striking action of the hand
Penalties - Both attackers and defenders must remain outside the 20m line and the arc until the ball is struck from a penalty and the three defenders on the line must not move off the line until the ball is struck.

Both Hurling and Football:

Restarting Play – We are all women now!!!If play is stopped by the referee to enable a seriously injured player to be treated, play will now resume with a free to the team that had possession. However it will not be permitted to score from such a free (if neither team is “in possession”, play shall re-start with a throw in)
Throw ins – when the play is being restarted by a throw-in, this must take place a minimum of 13 metres from the sideline
Advantage – For JC!!A referee will now signal that advantage is being played by raising his arm
Extra Time – Extra time consists of 10 minutes per half only. The provision for two additional periods of 5 minutes per half has been removed
Boundary Lines – The penalty for a player deliberately going outside the boundary lines of the pitch to gain an advantage has changed from a caution to a free.
Charge – A charge is now defined as “shoulder to shoulder” rather than “side to side”

JimWexford wrote:Summary of Playing Rule Changes 2010

Football Only:
Handpass – If a player handpasses the ball using the open hand, there must be a definite underhand striking action.

Underhand striking action eh ..... no change there for the Ulster lads so ...

Jayo Cluxton wrote:

JimWexford wrote:Summary of Playing Rule Changes 2010

Football Only:
Handpass – If a player handpasses the ball using the open hand, there must be a definite underhand striking action.

Underhand striking action eh ..... no change there for the Ulster lads so ...

Your fairly good at yourself when the occasion arises

JimWexford wrote:

Jayo Cluxton wrote:

JimWexford wrote:Summary of Playing Rule Changes 2010

Football Only:
Handpass – If a player handpasses the ball using the open hand, there must be a definite underhand striking action.

Underhand striking action eh ..... no change there for the Ulster lads so ...

Your fairly good at yourself when the occasion arises

I beg your pardon. I never hit anyone with a hand - open or closed .... not when there was a baseball bat close at hand ....

Don't like that rule. It is often far handier and quicker to use an overhand action or to strike the ball from the side. A clear striking action should be enough.

brought in to "define " the handpass so you can now flick throw etc underhand but not overhand any more

Sideline kicks – Line balls must be kicked from outside the boundary line

Surely this isn't going to work. There's generations of lads brought up with stealing the few metres inside. Now there are going to change it for the championship????!!! Ws this even in the experimental rules for the league?

I agree with the rule completely but you can't just throw a change like that in and not expect problems. What's the penalty if you take it from inside?

You lose the lineball and the ref brings the ball in 13metres from the line and throws the ball up.
you think thats bad for championship football intercounty. (you have two linesmen and 4 umpires to help).
Try and implement this rule in a junior b/d whatever you want -no linesmen and a row breaks out that this lad was over the line and kicker says he wasn't.

rules are rules I have no problem with them BUT the powers that be have to help out the ref doing a junior game (be it league or champ) and the county boards don't give a ***** about these games or players.

dr shepaerd, you CAN hit an overhead pass with the hand as long as the hand is closed (fist). The ruling only applies to the open hand, with the open hand you require an underhand action