GAA president Jarlath Burns has called for a "review" into the restoration of provincial replays while also stating that penalties are not the solution to deciding deadlocked finals.
The biggest rivals in hurling couldn’t be separated after 70 minutes, or at the end of an additional 20 minutes of extra-time.
The Rebels came out on top in the first shootout in top-tier hurling, but speaking at the launch of the All-Ireland Hurling Championship in Offaly's GAA's Training Centre in Kilcormac, the 'Faithful Fields', Burns insisted that it isn’t the way he wants to see silverware decided.
"I don’t agree that penalties are the best way to end any final," he told RTÉ Sport’s Marty Morrissey.
"Coming from Armagh, that’s definitely my position," he said in a nod to his native county’s struggles from penalties.
Of the seven shootouts that have occurred in the championship since the first in 2022, Armagh have, remarkably, been on the losing side in four of them.
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Saturday’s Munster finale has raised the topic of replays, as opposed to the 'winner on the day’ outcomes.
The hurling preliminary quarter-finals, in an already compact championship schedule, has been put forward as a major stumbling block for replays, but Burns feels it is something that should be re-examined.
"We did bring a motion of replays to Congress," he said. "Unfortunately it didn’t suit Munster at the time because of the preliminary quarter-finals that are played a week later.
"In the light of what has happened at the weekend, it’s definitely something I think we should review."
