Peter Keane and Davy Burke call on FRC for clarity and changes

Clare manager Peter Keane and Roscommon boss Davy Burke have outlined their own suggested tweaks to the current Football Review Committee rules, while calling for greater clarity in how new edicts are communicated.

Those involved in Gaelic games are all too accustomed to tournament formats and rules that seem to exist in a state of perpetual flux, but the FRC's brave new world was always one that was going to require close monitoring and an agile rather than an unyielding approach to rules that simply didn't work as designed.

With teams now compelled to keep three outfield players in each half of the pitch, Keane cited the role of the marauding goalkeeper and his ability to create an overload in the opposition half as a rule in need of altering.

#ClareGAA manager Peter Keane on the need for "clarity" re the interpretation of the new playing rules and why a change in the rules now would impact the integrity of the league and the championship #rtegaa pic.twitter.com/HukkfOjd3C

"I would like to see the goalie coming out of the field being tweaked," Keane told RTÉ Sport. "I think 12 v 11 is unfair.

"Equally, I would worry about the goalkeepers' kickouts having to go outside the 40-metre arc. I worry about that in club football. Will certain goalkeepers in the depths of winter get beyond that 40m arc?

"From a management perspective, tactically, if you don't have big midfielders to compete and contest for that ball outside, you need an opportunity to be able to work a short kickout somehow.

"One of the concerns that I would have is that they wanted more kickpassing and more kicking to go on with the new rules. Looking at the data, it doesn't appear as if that is happening.

"The handpass is still the same, if not increasing. There's