https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/henry-shefflin-backs-crackdown-on-cynical-play-and-puts-his-hands-up-1.4512286Kilkenny legend admits he encouraged it while coaching Ballyhale to All-Ireland win
"Henry Shefflin has welcomed the GAA crackdown on cynical fouling and admitted that as a manager, he encouraged it. Congress in February accepted on a trial basis awarding a penalty for infractions that deprive opponents of goal-scoring opportunities within the 20-metre line or its arc and sin binning the offending player...
“I’ve done it myself. I’ve talked about the All-Ireland semi-final against Slaughtneil where Evan Shefflin left the wing forward, I think it was Brendan Rogers, get in behind him at a critical stage in the game and I said to him after the match, ‘Why didn’t you stop him? You had a chance to stop him 40 yards out? You let him in, they scored a goal’...
Shefflin had been critical of calculated fouling in his role as pundit on the Sunday Game and he reiterated that criticism of his own county’s Huw Lawlor for a foul on Galway’s Niall Burke in last November’s Leinster final. “It was completely cynical play in that he just yanked the hurl from him and what I didn’t realise until after the event and even from the discussions since, is that that doesn’t even warrant a yellow card so I think that rule needs to be definitely changed. “It’s happened in a few incidents close to goal where a defender just knows he has to stop his player, come hell or high water. I’m sure the rules [committee] and CCCC will look at it later on this year because you might see an incident or two like that again and you’d imagine there’ll be a lot of noise about it.”
