Just one piece missing in perfect Munster Hurling Championship jigsaw

'If you get to the provincial final, you should surely have some advantage over the team that finishes third. As things stand, you don't'

Munster GAA chief executive Kieran Leddy believes teams which reach a provincial final should be rewarded with home advantage in the All-Ireland quarter-finals. Pic: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

It would be, in the words of then Waterford chairman Paddy Joe Ryan, “the worst decision in the history of GAA if it happened."

Nearly 10 years later and from a Waterford perspective, the vote to change the provincial championships from knock-out to round-robin was a fateful one.