The GAA's head of games, Pat Daly, says the pin-pointing of six categories of dangerous fouls was necessary to offset the real possibility of a serious injury occurring on the field of play. "The hurling championship had to stabilise itself and something just had to be done about the cynical fouling in both sports," said Daly. "It was only a matter of time before someone received a serious neck injury from a high tackle. People can say we had good championships all they like but we identified six categories of dangerous offences that were frequently occurring. "We spent a long time looking into them and now players are gone off the field once they commit any of them. There is no comeback. "Back in 2005 we tried the sin-bin, there was chaos on the sidelines as we tried to implement the new rules and games were descending into a farce while the binned players wondered how long before they were back on the field. "I think there was also an element of bravado among some players about getting a sin-bin. So we weren't going to revisit that." Tweet

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