More hurling action should be the target

Four days out from a hurling-dominated Special Congress and what will be decided for next year’s senior championship is anyone’s guess, writes John Fogarty.

That a motion now requires 60%, not 66.66% to be successful doesn’t make things much clearer.

Just because more and more hurling counties seem to be against the central GAA proposal to transform the provincial championships from knock-out to round-robin doesn’t explain a whole lot either. Not when predominantly football counties outnumber them and certainly not when the traditionally strong voting power of the likes of Cork, Limerick, and Tipperary has been dramatically cut by the fact this is a Special Congress and all counties will have just two delegates. That’s according to the GAA’s statement a couple of months back although there are suggestions each county will have half their usual delegation number plus their Central Council delegate.