Colm Cooper is predicting chaos over the changes to the square-ball rule that kick in this week, having been passed at last month's Congress, and has suggested it has to the potential for "all hell to break loose".
The rule now allows an opposing player to be in the small parallelogram ahead of the ball, removing the protection previously afforded to goalkeepers. It is designed to remove controversial decisions that have consistently arisen over the rule, particularly in recent years on some of the highest-profile championship afternoons.
But Cooper sees only further hardship for officials in the months ahead and has likened the potential scenes to "a zoo".
"It'll be fairly difficult for referees to police it now. When a team are two points down and they're lobbing balls into the square to try and get a goal, all hell will break loose," he warned.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/cooper-fears-rule-change-will-spark-squareball-chaos-3108937.html
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