As the new season draws nearer and it is looking increasingly likely that most of the new proposals made by Jim Gavin's Football Rules Committee will be introduced, we are curious to see how managers will deal with them.
It is a level playing field for the first time in a long time as every single manager is starting from a base point with these proposals and we will find out who can be the most innovative with them.
Above everyone else though, fans are most curious about how Jim McGuinness tackles the new rules, and how he will set up his team.
The Donegal manager has revolutionised Gaelic football in the past, and isn't afraid to take extreme measures to win football matches, with his 2012 All-Ireland winning team influencing how the game is played even now.
Throughout the inter-provincial tournament where the new rules were trialled in the public eye for the first time, McGuinness was in attendance, but never uttered a word to the press.
The job of managing each of the provincial teams was offered to the provincial winning managers of last summer which means that the Glenties man would have been given the chance to manage Ulster and refused.
It appears that McGuinness is keeping his cards very close to his chest, but in Pat Spillane's latest Sunday World column, the Kerryman says that the stoic GAA boss broke his silence.
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"Jim McGuinness made a point to me that the average transition from defence to shooting at the other end was down to a minute."
It isn't much, but it gives us a window into what the Donegal man noticed and found most striking from watching the new rules in Croke Park.
McGuinness has always been obsessed with the transition from defence to attack, and although most people only see his tactics from 2012 as getting players back to win the turn-over, once they did, the goal was to break in numbers at full speed, and counter the opposition.
With the extra space that the new rules allow for, and all of the stipulations that encourage kick passing, it is possible that he sees something to really go after with his Donegal team next season.
Interestingly, McGuinness wasn't the only person that Spillane spoke to, as he had an interesting conversation with one of the referees who officiated the games.
"I also spoke to referee Martin McNally, who took charge of the Leinster v Connacht game on Friday. His stats were very interesting. In an average game of 70 minutes, referees usually cover around 10km.
"Last Friday night, in a 60-minute game, he did 12k."
It is clear that the fast paced nature of these new rules will put a lot of strain on the bodies for GAA players, but equally, it is going to be a challenge for referees as well.
