Kerry selector Mike Quirke says that the GAA needs to do something to make football less defensive, but that major rule changes aren't the answer.
The former Laois manager, speaking on RTÉ's Sunday Sport, suggested that a defensive mindset has taken over the game which has made it less appealing to watch.
Kilmacud Crokes defeated Éire Óg in the Leinster football championship on Saturday evening in a relatively low scoring, and poorly attended, game at Netwatch Cullen Park.
This followed on from a smaller than usual crowd at the Cork football final last month and Quirke says that more needs to be done to facilitate attacking football.
"There's probably rule tweaks," he said when asked what needs to change.
"As adverse as I am to changing the rules of the game constantly, because we seem to be doing that a little too often. The biggest problem with Gaelic football is the fact that you can defend with 15 men inside a very small space inside your 45.
"Everybody is trying to come up with ways to increase teams' opportunity to score but the biggest obstacle is the amount of people in a small space.
"I'm not sure how you're going to do that outside of becoming a little bit more offensive minded and really working on the offensive side of your game. As opposed to getting your house in order and getting everybody behind the ball and working on counter attacking football.
"It's a trend and it's going to take a bit of coaching and a lot of time to break it down and become a little bit more offensive minded. But that's what we want to see, goals and scores, attacking stuff that we all came to watch."
While more scores might make the games more exciting, Quirke warns against throwing the baby out with the bath water.
"There's a balance as well; we can't be going back to 1970s and 80s, kicking every single ball," he added.
"It's about finding the balance between your attacking play and your defensive play. Right now the balance has gone too much into the defensive side.
"There needs to be action taken to help lift the game again."
Pushed on what that might entail, Quirke added: "Could an official say you have to have four forwards in the attacking side of the field? Automatically you're limiting the number of guys that can go defend to 11.
"Those guys can different - it doesn't have to be the same four fellas all the time - but four guys have to stay on the attacking side of the field.
"At least that's creating more space inside the 45. A referee's job is a nightmare as it is and I don't know how they do it, and they do it very well. I don't know if it's something that's refereeable.
"That's the biggest problem in the game. You're only kicking the ball backwards because there's 14 guys inside the 45. If there's less bodies in there, there's more space and opportunities to score.
"It's about regulating that, and creating those opportunities, more than changing the rules wholesale."
