Dublin hurler Paul Ryan feels the GAA has got it wrong with the new penalty rule for hurling.

Instead of reducing the number of players defending the goal-line from three to one, Ryan believes a ban on the use of goalkeeper's hurls for taking penalties should have been imposed.

"I probably think it could have been solved if they'd just got rid of the goalie hurl and just keep three on the line," Ryan told the Irish Times at an AIG event to launch their Pupil Protector Insurance Plan in partnership with JF Dunne Insurances. .

"What I'm saying is the person actually taking the free shouldn't be allowed use a goalie hurl. Just take the goalie hurl out of the free, and you wouldn't be connecting with it as cleanly."

Ryan expects one-on-one penalties to lead to more goals.

"It's after going from one extreme to the other and now there's only one in the goal. So, yeah, you could say it's easier - but nothing's easy in front of a few thousand.

"You'd have to put a certain amount of power in it - and pick a spot. But you're under the threat now that the 'keeper is just going to move.

"Rather than relying on reaction, he's going to pick a spot, and you're going to pick a spot, and that's going to be a guessing game. And that's the way it's going to go."

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