Déise plan new club format

WATERFORD County Board are likely to ratify a new format for their domestic hurling and football championships next week.

A proposal by Mount Sion’s Phil Fanning at a special board meeting this week will be discussed by delegates on Tuesday night.

With 12 teams involved in both championships, there will be four groups of three teams, with the winners of each group advancing to the county quarter-finals. The second and third-placed teams in each group will then involve themselves in a knockout system, with the four winners of these knockouts also advancing to the quarter-finals, while the losers play-off to decide who is relegated to the intermediate grade.