Kerry ground down Clare last Sunday to reach another Munster SFC final, with one element of their performance sparking plenty of debate in the aftermath.
The ploy of 'screening' opposition defenders to give your team-mate more space to get a shot in - in Kerry's case David Clifford was often the beneficiary - is proving divisive.
Smart play within the boundaries of the rules? Or cynical football that should be stamped out of the game?
On this week's RTÉ GAA Podcast, Brian Fenton and Dessie Dolan discussed the issue.
"I think as a player, when you're on the ball you know what you want to set up," said former Dublin midfielder Fenton.
"You're being coached, you're being repped doing this. So if I'm a ball carrier and I see David Clifford on the loop, or I see Paddy Small on the loop, I'm running towards him and that contest and his man. My man is going to come with me and at the last minute to limit any kind of mistakes or any drop balls, I'm just going to pop it off and get my body in the way.
"Again, the onus is on the ball-releaser to make it look subtle and make it look kind of unplanned. Of course it's planned, and you're leaving it to the last minute. You see (Kerry's) Mike Breen at the weekend, leaving it to the last minute. He's the ball carrier, he's not really fouling anyone, but he's absolutely obstructing the Clare player getting on the ball. I don't know what the answer is to it."
Fenton believes it's an area that is almost impossible to officiate.
"You know when it's black card territory, when it's blatant, when it's obvious, when you absolutely want to stop that player from advancing," he said. "But the screen thing... I think it's kind of like a skill in itself, you know, that late release of the ball, that timing of the run from your shooter... it's going to be very hard to police, and there'll be a lot of inconsistencies, I think, if referees are looking at it.
"Coming into the crunch periods of the game, when emotions get heightened and referees maybe get pulled into the emotion of the game as well, I think it would be very hard to distinguish what's a well-worked loop, a well-worked screen versus something that's blatant and a free against."
Dolan concurred, adding that the best footballers are adept at pushing the rules to the limit as long as they can gain any sort of advantage.
"It's the dark arts of Gaelic football," said the Westmeath man.
"It's what you can get away with that the referee isn't alert to and the intelligent or high-level footballers are always able to position themselves just inside the line of giving away a free. That's the balance of it.
"You're playing the referee all the time. The elite players are the guys that are manipulating situations for themselves all of the time. I'm sure David Clifford is in the ear of the boys, 'just screen them for me, screen them'.
"The Kerry lads are the cleverest footballers of all time. They are so clever in terms of making everything look rosy in the garden while they're stabbing you in the back!
"It's the referee's interpretation. If you're in possession of the football, you're not fouling it, so where you run is up to you. You're running directly to an opponent knowing David Clifford's coming off your shoulder. The onus is on the defender not to get swallowed into it.
"If I was playing, I'd always be looking, can I get contact? Can I win an easy free? If I can't win an easy free, I'm screening your man to get David Clifford free. That's just good coaching."
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