Don't revert to the old fourdivision league model.

Fermanagh, Westmeath and Sligo started moving up in the world when they saw themselves as having Division One status. Go back to four divisions and the likes of Tyrone and Kerry will be jaded by May playing each other week-in, week-out.

Separate the bottom 16 into Divisions Two and Three; Leitrim, Tipp, Waterford, Carlow, Wicklow, London and even Clare have been rooted in Division Two for donkey's years. Give them a final that they can aim for, with maybe the winner going through to the Division Two semi-final.

Championship. Some pundits believe all qualifier and quarterfinal draws should be open, even if it means teams who've met in the provincial championships meeting again. We disagree. Do they know how much effort and planning goes into beating that crowd in the first place? Do they want Tipp hurling to be reduced to being a Stop-Waterford movement? There's other teams out there to play. Variety's good.

Get rid of the mechanism so which now facilitates the strong possibility of a Dublin-Laois repeat on August 27.

And HDC, please, next year make sure that there's no TippWaterford like repeat, otherwise come the Munster semi-final, people are going to say, "sure we could be meeting this crowd again the game after this". The competition has been devalued enough. There now. Glad we have that off our chests.

BARRIE GETS READY TO HIT THE SMALL SCREEN Setanta viewers who may wonder at the strange sounds emanating from their televisions in the near future need not adjust their sets. It's only Barrie Henriques. Callan's most famous resident not called John Power, the inimitable scribe, radio commentator, GAA yearbook editor, publican, rally driver and dual intercounty minor will be commentating on hurling and football matches in the coming weeks. We'd be here for the rest of the day if we attempted to list his best lines from his Radio Kilkenny commentaries. Suf"ce it to say, dull he won't be.