Tiered Leinster SHC

Replying To Doylerwex:  "Round robin statistics don't suggest that the top 4 group would make the semi final every year.

Galway, Wexford and Dublin have all been inconsistent.

Offaly are improving but one good underage team isn't enough to sustain that consistently.

I would be most worried about the top team in the second group to be honest."

Replying To Seanfan:  "What incentive is there for winning the McDonagh Cup (2nd tier AI championship) in this new proposed system?"

Replying To Viking66:  "So far in 7 years of Round Robins every county has finished outside the top 3 at least once.
As regards the proposal, the top team in the 2nd group, or the 2nd team either, I presume if they won their quarterfinal they would be in the other group the following year?"

Replying To legendzxix:  "The 3 tiered solution just seems like an offering that something was offered while eventually keeping the status quo.
Green Proposal: status quo.
Red Proposal: 3 tiered offering."

Replying To Pikeman96:  "On the first part - true, but you'd have to suspect Kilkenny coming fourth this year was a real anomaly, and that going forward, they won't be outside the top two very often, never mind the top three.

Second part - also true. Group 1 each year would be made up of the four semi-finalists of the previous year. So yes, means that if you come through Group 2 and then beat a Group 1 team in a quarter-final, you'd be in Group 1 yourself the following year."

Replying To omahant:  "My feed to mixed groups:

HURLING

LIAM MCCARTHY CUP (14 teams; could be amended to other 'even quantity' of teams)

All teams play mixed-province, inter-group ties, encompassing all Prov 'KO ties', prior to AIC KO

- Munster KO 5 & Leinster KO 9
- AIC with two groups of 7 (A & B)
- Groups 'formed', not drawn (after Prov SFs)

- Muns QF loser to Group A, winner to B
- SF1 opponent of Muns QF winner to A
- Muns Finalists placed in opposite groups
- Muns SF losers to opposite groups
- There is a Muns trio in A & pair in B

- Lein Prelim winner to Group A, loser to B
- QF1 opponent of Lein Prelim winner to B
- Lein QF1 & QF2 winners (SF1);
Lein QF3 & QF4 winners (SF2); and
Lein Finalists, each placed in a group
opposite teams played
- Lein QF & SF losers, each to a group
opposite teams played
- There is a Lein quartet in A & quintet in B

- Merge to form two groups of 7 (A & B)
- Each team completes a 7-game inter-group
schedule, including all their Prov KO ties (1-4)
- Prov KO is 'winner on the day' (1 point each, if
drawn at full time)

- All teams play in the last inter-group round on
June 6/7, including Prov Finals [could be June
20/21 if AIC Finals were flipped (football first)
and played on opposite sides of the August
Bank Holiday weekend