New GAA President Jarlath Burns: Jim Gavin will head Football Review group

Former Dublin manager Jim Gavin has been named as the man to lead the GAA's new Football Review Committee.

Incoming GAA president, Jarlath Burns, who was ratified at Congress this afternoon, announced the six-time All-Ireland-winning coach as the person tasked with heading a group that has been set up to help develop ways to make the modern game a more attractive proposition.

"I have established a football review group that will be led by the one and only Jim Gavin," Burns said.

A study last year found a significant increase in hand-passing, uncontested kick-outs, backward passes and a definite decrease in turnovers and contests for possession as the key trends in modern Gaelic football.

Their report paints a clear picture of how football has become a more possession-based sport as teams delve deeper into data analytics and play a generally more conservative system as a result. The catch-and-kick game of the past appears to be long gone.

Having won an All-Ireland title in his first season in charge, 2013, Gavin then led Dublin to a famous five-in-a-row from 2015 with Dessie Farrell taking over in 2020 and winning a sixth straight Sam Maguire.

Gavin's teams, particularly in the early seasons of his seven-year reign, were considered to be among the most attacking, entertaining sides the game has seen.

The association's new president will be hoping Round Towers Clondalkin man Gavin - who also won an All-Ireland as a player in 1995 - can help develop fresh ideas to return the game to its simpler, more attacking roots while also maintaining the merits of the modern approach.

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