Replying To tirawleybaron:  "Wexford have 12 teams and are the least successful county in senior club football - so a very high probability that their representative goes out in the first round and the whole thing doesn't effect them. (if any county should adopt the Kerry club football it should be Wexford - buts thats another discussion)

Lets say that there representatives win a provincial match.
There current 2 groups of 6 becomes 5.
Instead of the top 4 in each group of 6, it becomes the top 3 in 5 goes to the quarter finals
The defending champs and intermediate champs then enter at qfinals.
This one is very simple in reality.

Last year Glynn Barntown lost 3 of 5 matches and still made the qfinals - making them try a bit harder during the round robin (they then beat Shelmaliers who topped the other group) wont do any harm.

As I said earlier, park the local club begrudgery and realise that each county should give their own winners the best chance to go on the represent the rest of the clubs and win the provincial/all ireland club.

Taking the Wexford example, Castletown played 8 matches between 20th July and 27th October (8 matches in 14 weeks) and then got beat out the gate a month later by St Lomans Mullingar. So its more likely that their intermediate champions would get a bye."

Replying To tirawleybaron:  "Why not?
That would only apply to All ireland finalists - they would enter earlier if eliminated from interprovincial club earlier.

Considering Wexfords dismal performance in the Leinster Club championship (only Kilkenny are worse at senior level), such a format wont effect ye lads."