WATCH: What rule-changes should be made in Gaelic football?

The Sky Sports GAA panel discuss what rules should be changed in Gaelic football to make it a better spectacle.

There's no doubt that hurling has stolen the show so far this summer. The small ball has served up classic after classic, as the Irish sporting public have been enthralled by high-scoring affairs.

The same can't be said for Gaelic football to the same degree, as some of the major championship games have flattered to deceive.

The GAA have tinkered with the sport in recent years to make the game a more attractive prospect, with some degree of success. The introduction of the black card and the mark have had largely positive impacts.

Now focus turns to what else can be done to make Gaelic football a more enticing sport.

Senan Connell, Jim McGuinness, Peter Canavan and Billy Joe Padden joined Brian Carney on the GAA Debate Show to give their views.

Peter Canavan suggested that in order to prevent opposition players delaying a free being taking, there should be a 50-yard penalty rather than merely moving the ball up 13 yards. The former Tyrone All-Ireland winner said: "If that simple rule was brought into Gaelic football, it would speed it up and it would penalise negative play."

Jim McGuinness suggested that the sport adopts a 'back-court' rule akin to basketball.

"When you go into the opposition 65, I don't think you should be allowed back out again. It would give teams, from a defensive point of view, a chance to press out and get aggressive pressure on the ball.

"To keep continuity in the game, I think that's a rule that would be easily implemented and would make sense."

Senan Connell said that teams ought to be encouraged to press forward by backwards passes inside your own half being outlawed. The rule is implemented in the Kilmacud Crokes Sevens tournament each year.

Billy Joe Padden wants an 'attacking mark' for forwards inside the 45 when balls are kicked in from outside that area.

"What I really want to see is exciting football. I think the most exciting elements of Gaelic football are good long kicks into the edge of the square where a forward goes up and catches it cleanly. It's a skill we don't see often enough in the game.

"I think that would ask totally different questions of defences. A swarm defence wouldn't really work if a forward is good enough to go up there and catch that ball.

"It would bring back more kicking and catching and that's really what I want to see."