Ulster overcame Connacht on Saturday night to close out a captivating and surreal weekend of gaelic football at Croke Park.
The public were hosted to a radical overhaul of the gaelic football rule book, and while there are so many questions for the game to come out of this, the weekend's games have the general public excited for gaelic football for the first time in a while.
It will be fascinating to see which - if any - of these rules pass through the Ard Chomhairle next week and Special Congress on 30 November.
Some supporters might not like all of the new rules but, in defence of Jim Gavin's FRC, all of the rules changes are well-thought out.
According to Gavin, they are all interconnected.
It was only when these games were played that the viability - or lack thereof - behind these rules - would be obvious.
There were many great innovations but not all were successes. One of the stranger rules involved umpires waving two flags for the two point score.
The new rules dictated that the umpire waves a white flag and then a red flag.
It was a strange sight. When first seen on Friday's broadcast, it seemed like the umpire had forgot to wave the red flag. But it became clear that the new rules dictated that umpires wave two flags when a two-pointer is scored.
It seemed needless, and unexpectedly flamboyant
Speaking on RTÉ during Saturday's broadcast, ref Martin McNally - who officiating the first game on Friday evening - flagged it as the one rule referees would look to change.
"I don't think it looks good. We can tidy that part up."
The issue came up during in the tenth minute of the game, after Conor Gleeson scored a two-point 45. Eamon Fitzmaurice of the FRC said the two flags had provoked discussion amongst FRC members.
"I think there was some technicality about the white flag having to be raised first. But it was certainly a thing that was raised by a good few people when when we had our chat as a committee last night when we discussed it. It's something that we might look at even before next weekend at the Ard Chomhairle meeting.
Time will tell if the two-point score follows the double flag raise and is consigned to history.
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GAA rules changes: in defence of the magic spray
Speaking of "silly" rules, it was interesting to hear Eamonn Fitzmaurice's defence of the magic spray being utilised by referees this weekend.
18 October 2024; Referee Martin McNally tests out his vanishing spray before the Allianz GAA Football Interprovincial Championship semi-final match between Leinster and Connacht at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
During Saturday's final between Ulster and Leinster, ref David Coldrick's use of the magic spray drew some interest from players, notably from man of the match Rían O'Neill.
And while arch-traditionalists might squirm at seeing another innovation from football brought into the GAA, it was clear how practical the vanishing spray was, as it impeded freetakers from stealing valuable metres on the pitch.
"It might seem like a silly one but it's actually very important as the game goes on," Fitzmaurice said on the live broadcast.
Of all the changes, this one that has almost universal backing.
