A Tipperary club official has revealed his motion aimed at reducing the number of steps a player can take with ball in hand from four to three has met with opposition from Hurling’s 2020 review committee.

Tipperary boss Eamon O’Shea is adopting a ‘wait and see’ approach on the new proposals put forward by the Hurling 2020 review committee.

At last Tuesday’s Hurling 2020 report launch, committee member Frank Lohan was asked if the double yellow card proposal was effectively saying hurling was twice as clean as Gaelic football.

Hurling 2020 committee member Frank Lohan has encouraged county managers to pick holes in their proposals providing they come up with better alternatives.

It wasn’t one of the Hurling 2020 committee’s 15 proposals but the body are fully behind a shake-up of the league, says member Ollie Canning.

Hurling 2020 committee chairman Liam Sheedy concedes their automatic substitution for two yellow cards proposal received a lukewarm response from counties and will be a difficult sell at next month’s Congress.

Big picture or tiny details? Yesterday’s launch of the Hurling 2020 report gives you panorama and thumbnail in one day’s work.

Kilkenny legend Eddie Keher and referees chief Pat McEnaney have taken issue with the Hurling 2020 committee’s proposal to make a second yellow card an automatic substitution offence — but for different reasons.

Gerry Tully, the GAA’s Higher Education committee chairman, last night revealed they had no contact from the Hurling 2020 group during their extensive six month consultation process.

Three full months remain of Liam O’Neill’s GAA presidency.

Cork did succeed in doing something on Sunday. They became a statistic.

Hurling 2020 committee member Ollie Canning has backed calls for the introduction of the black card, claiming players are being too severely punished for innocuous fouls.

Hurling review committee chairman Liam Sheedy has pledged his support to retaining the structure of the provincial championships.