Galway propose round-robin series for minors

The most successful minor hurling county of the past two decades is pushing for a radical overhaul of the grade’s current All-Ireland championship format.

Galway chiefs will table a motion at this weekend’s Congress in Carlow calling for the introduction of a round-robin format, to be run off following the completion of the early rounds of the two provincial championships, thereby ending the practice of Galway and Antrim entering at All-Ireland quarter-final stage.

Under the proposed system, six teams — Galway, Antrim, the two teams defeated in the Leinster quarter-finals and the two teams defeated in the Munster first round play-offs — would make up the round-robin series.