Also pleasing to hear was Nickey Brennan's mention to Congress that he'd be considering how to make football an even better game and maybe creating a football equivalent of the post Paudie Butler fills in hurling.

Sideline Cuts suggests that football doesn't so much need a national development officer as a committee, similar to Joe McDonagh's FDC which oddly had no successors during the tenures of McCague, Kelly, and to date, Brennan. And how about Jack serving on it, maybe as its chairman? He cares about the game and has a credibility factor that's hard to equal.

Before Jack gets landed with that project though, we have to challenge him on one point.

While he was right in claiming that too many coaches take the easy option of not honing their players' footpassing, he was well off the mark to cite Dublin, and implicitly, Pillar Caffrey, as his example of such malpractice.

Jack claims "one or two quick handpasses, a good diagonal ball for half forwards to come onto and then inside the 21 with the ball is the ideal". Well, then Dublin's style is ideal.

In last year's Leinster semifinal against Laois, Dublin kicked the ball into their forwards 36 times and won it 26 times, with 111 of their scores coming with a foot pass as the last pass. In the Leinster final, they completed 29 of their 42 footpasses into the forwards. Compare that to Tyrone, who used only 15 footpasses into their forwards in the 2005 All Ireland final. If, as Jack claims, Dublin are more athletes than footballers, isn't it to Caffrey's enormous credit that he's getting them to kick pass the ball so often?

Kerry under Jack were fairly nifty with the footpass themselves, but often that diagonal ball was being pumped in by their wing forwards, not wing backs. Even Seamus Moynihan in the 2004 league final kicked the ball just once for every 21 times he fisted it.

Keep coming with the ideas, Jack, but if you're going to use the boot, hit the right target instead of going for the easy one.

HURLING TRULY IS A RELIGION FOR SOME Anyone out there got an idea who yer man with the hurley on the latest version of the televised Angelus is and what club he's from?

Compiled by Kieran Shannon and Enda McEvoy