The GAA is set to trial a new ruling that will limit the number of consecutive handpasses a team can make before a player is forced to kick pass.

The Irish Daily Mail reports today that a proposal from the Association's Standing Rules Committee will limit the number of consecutive handpasses to three before a player is forced to kick the ball.

Next year's Sigerson Cup competition could be used to experiment the change but Chairman Jarlath Burns admitted: "The fear is that you put pressure on someone under pressure when it gets to three handpasses and he then turns around and plays it back to the goalkeeper for example.

"Or you have a player running alongside to take a short kick pass which goes against the idea of delivering it. But we'll see how those sort of things work themselves out."

A mark to encourage high fielding is another proposal the group are currently considering.

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