The Leinster Council will wait and see what plans Croke Park come up with to revamp the senior football championship before deciding if they'll resubmit their motion aimed at allowing each province the freedom to run their competitions.

Leinster chiefs were hoping to introduce a round-robin system in the early rounds of their senior football championship and a motion to that effect received a majority vote (62-28pc) at the recent GAA Congress.

It failed, however, to secure the two-thirds majority it needed to pass and chairman John Horan told The Irish Independent: "The vote showed that there was a lot of goodwill towards what we were looking for.

"We'll now wait and see if anything is done nationally. There's a general acceptance that something needs to be done to help less successful counties. That was the sole aim of the motion."

The fine detail hadn't been worked out but if Leinster's proposal was passed it would probably have meant that Carlow, Wicklow, Offaly, Longford, Louth and Westmeath would have played off in two groups of three in 2016.

The winners of each group, plus the winners of a play-off between the two second-placed teams, would join Dublin, Meath, Kildare, Laois and Wexford in the last eight.

"The actual details weren't worked out. There was no point doing that until we got the necessary rule change and unfortunately we didn't quite make it."

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