Here's why the Cork board backs hurling Super 8s to rescue club schedule

Miniscule club activity during the month of July is behind the Cork proposal to introduce a hurling Super 8s.

Cork GAA bosses will bring a motion to Special Congress later this month recommending that the concluding stages of the All-Ireland SHC be structured in identical fashion to the 2018 football championship: Two groups of four teams, run off on a round-robin basis, would replace the All-Ireland quarter-finals, with the top two in either group advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals.

Croke Park want the provincial hurling championship format changed to round-robin, with the All-Ireland quarter-finals to comprise of the beaten provincial finalists and the third placed team from both Leinster and Munster.