Dubs boss Mick Bohan wants more physicality in women's Gaelic football

Mick Bohan is in fine form as he speaks at the launch of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Football Championships in Croke Park.

Speaking about accusations that he can be heard giving out at most of these events, he reasonably contests: "If you don't listen to people who were in the arena, well then who do you listen to?

"I'm telling you what I'm listening to from my group, but I'm also telling you what I'm seeing as a coach."

Bohan is frustrated by what he perceives to be inconsistencies in the interpretation of physicality in the tackle in the women's game.

"The tackle is still ill-defined," the Dublin manager contends.

"If you speak about the tackle, every single referee that I speak to has a different interpretation of the tackle.

"And I know, coming into the summer series and an All-Ireland final, the rules will not be the same as they were in Parnell Park or Navan. They will not be the same because they won't allow that lack of contact in front of 50,000 people

"You can't have that then, right? It should be consistent - and that makes sense, doesn't it?

"So that's not moaning or giving out, this is the spectacle that people want to see, let them see it. Just a small tweak in the tackle"

It's certainly not the first time Bohan has tackled, if you'll excuse the pun, the topic. In fact you can find mention of his irritation about the rules, and referee's interpretations of them, in various interviews he's given since he took the reins in the capital at the ahead of the 2017 campaign.

Whether it changes or not comes down, as he sees it, to how games are reported upon.

"If you go back to Parnell Park [Lidl League defeat to Meath], I'd be frustrated after the game. When I read the report of the game, it should reflect the game that I saw.