There have been few more outspoken in their criticism of modern Gaelic football than Pat Spillane.
An eight-time All-Ireland winner as a player with Kerry in the 1970s and '80s, Spillane cut an increasingly forlorn figure as his time on The Sunday Game punditry panel progressed.
It was Spillane who coined the infamous 'puke football' term to describe Tyrone's tactics en route to the 2003 All-Ireland, and his stance has hardly softened in the two decades since.
Recent months have seen a group of esteemed Gaelic football figures tasked with reinventing the sport's core rulebook under the stewardship of ex-Dublin manager Jim Gavin.
The Football Review Committee's rule changes were put to the test publicly in a series of interprovincial games in Croke Park last week, with the feedback generally positive from the watching GAA world.
Appearing on The 2 Johnnies' Late Night Lock-In on Thursday evening, Spillane gave his take on the proposed rule changes, and delivered a hilarious line about the Gaelic football community finally coming around to his stance on the sport.
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Pat Spillane gives his take on the new Gaelic football rules
Having been in attendance in Croke Park for last weekend's interprovincial series, Pat Spillane was eager to share his opinion on the new-look Gaelic football.
The Kerryman would deliver a hilarious one-liner that suggested he thinks the public have finally come around to the stance he has held for over 20 years now.
I was in Croke Park last week - great, great, absolutely.
There's more scores, more kicking, less hand-passing, less defensive...it has to be embraced, it has to be welcomed.
It's brilliant because the game has been...you know, I spent 30 years on television, I was always giving out about it. You start to say, 'Fuck it, maybe it's only me, I feel wrong.'
Eventually everyone agreed that the game was Shite. You can quote me - that's a capital 'S' by the way!
We have honoured Spillane's wishes on how to be quoted.
It's hard to argue that serious issues exist with the styles of play favoured in modern Gaelic football. However, Spillane believes the changes proposed by the Football Review Committee have the potential to push the sport in the right direction.
It's a good news story. Like I said, Gaelic football has been poor. It needs to be two things - a greater game to play and a greater game to watch. I think they will [do that].
The FRC's changes will go in front of the Ard Comhairle before being voted on by a Special Congress ahead of the 2025 inter-county season.
We're going to hazard a guess that Pat Spillane would like to see them voted through.
