Jim Gavin targets 2025 for trialling of 'rule enhancements' from Football Review Committee process

Former Dublin manager Jim Gavin says the Football Review Committee which he is chairing is aiming for any "rule enhancements" to ready for a trial period by the start of the 2025 season, with the objective of permanent implementation in 2026.

The 12-strong committtee looking into ways to improve the game also includes fellow former inter-county managers Éamonn Fitzmaurice, James Horan and Malachy O'Rourke, as well as former Donegal All-Ireland winner Michael Murphy.

Speaking to RTÉ Sport's Marty Morrissey at Croke Park at the launch of the national survey for the Football Review Committee, Gavin said the remit of the body was to make Gaelic football "the most attractive amateur sport globally to play and watch".

"We'd like people to engage with us, tell us what they think about the games, things that they like, things that they dislike and then an open text of what would you like," he said.

"So that's where we open today, 5 April, it closes on 30 June and from that feedback that we get from what we call stakeholders, so predominantly the members of the association and the spectators and the people who might just enjoy Gaelic football - Gaelic football is the most played sport on the island of Ireland, it's the most watched sport and it's the sport that gets the most attention - so there's a big group that we need to survey and get their thoughts and ideas.

"Based on that and within the association - club coaches, club managers, the players themselves, referees, officials - we'll come up with some ideas to make rule enhancements.

"Our idea is to make not change for the sake of change, but anything that we propose will make the game better and to stay true to the vision the association has for itself that Gaelic games - and in