The GAA's Special Congress gets under way in Dublin this afternoon, with the format of next Summer's Senior Football Championship believed to be the subject of a possible facelift.
The suggestion up for debate today, along with many other side issues, came from the inter-county fixtures group. Their proposal is that the competion in football should now allow for a secondary open-draw competion for all teams eliminated right up until the provincial finals.
In this new structure, which is likely to be passed, four teams are to progress, and then go into a draw that will bring a new phase and indeed more money into the championship. Instead of just winners from provincial finals going straight into semi-finals, the "lucky losers" will join the four province winners in the quarter-finals. It seems the only question about the rubber-stamping of this new and fresh idea is whether it will become a rule in stone,or something that will run for a test period.
Filed by Sean Doran
