GAA CHIEFS HAVE today put forward innovative plans to revamp the football championship.
The Football Review Committee propose that each provincial championship starts with eight teams.
Teams will play off beforehand in preliminary ties based on league position. And the losers of those respective games will shift provinces to make up the numbers elsewhere.
“The intercounty provincial championships should begin with eight teams in each province,” the FRC’s proposal reads. “Teams playing in the preliminary games in Leinster (3) and Ulster (1) should be determined by National League position in the previous year.
“It is our proposal that once these games, A, B and C in Leinster and D in Ulster are decided, the losing teams in these four games move province for the provincial series. The draw will have determined which two teams from games, A, B and C in Leinster go to Munster with the third going to Connacht. The team beaten in Ulster (game D) would move to Connacht.”
Eugene McGee’s FRC have suggested the 16-team qualifiers should remain the same while they recommend the All-Ireland club championship be played off by the end of November.
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