Cork County Board insist that their defence of the old style of penalty-taking was justified.

This year's change to the interpretation of the rule - which was a direct response to Cork custodian Anthony Nash's ability to carry the sliothar up to seven yards before pulling the trigger (and thereby dubbed 'The Nash Rule') - has resulted in a situation where it is more difficult than ever to convert a penalty in hurling.

Tipp pair Seamus Callanan and John O'Dwyer both saw their efforts saved in Sunday's All-Ireland final and Cork County Board chairman Bob Ryan says the succession of failures to net penalties in this year's championship vindicates the Rebels' initial fight to retain the status quo:

"Based on Sunday and the two penalties saved, you'd have to say that the new way of doing it is far from satisfactory," he comments in The Irish Examiner.

"In my view, the position Cork took regarding penalties has been vindicated. A penalty is supposed to be a sanction for the team which committed a foul but that's clearly not the case, it's more advantageous to give away the penalty because the odds are in your favour then facing the penalty.

"We'd be hoping that things would go back to the way that they were before they were changed. You have to have some advantage for the attacking team and that has been taken away now.

"The other option is that, if they are to make the taker stay outside the 20m line, then remove the two defenders from the goal-line.

"It it's just the taker against the goalkeeper, then a situation where you start with the ball 23m or 24m from goal is a lot fairer. Either of those options is a lot better than what we have at the moment."

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