While the new round-robin series in this year's Leinster and Munster hurling championships proved a resounding success, Brian Cody believes it was another blow to clubs and that a balance urgently needs to be found between inter-county and club activity.

Speaking on the G'Day GAA podcast during Kilkenny's trip to Sydney for the inaugural Wild Geese Trophy match against Galway last weekend, the long-serving Cats boss stressed the need to provide regular games for the club player and expressed the fear that a 'dangerous precedent' has been created.

"There really has to be a serious look taken at it, almost come in with a blank canvas and plan the year between club and county and have a regular supply of games for both," he said.

"It's possible to do it, but there has to be a meeting of minds between everybody to achieve that.

"What's there right now is not best for everyone. Five per cent of the hurling population play inter-county hurling, if you were living in a town where five per cent of the population were entitled to go to work every day and 95 per cent didn't have anything to do... it's not a level playing pitch."

The 11-time All-Ireland winning manager added: "It (the Leinster SHC and MHC round-robin series) is creating an elitism about county hurlers the fact that they're playing regularly in the summer months whereas the fellas with the club are sitting at home, the pitches are empty.

"That's a dangerous precedent to be setting because they see themselves as inter-county players, 'Oh yeah, sure the club, I'll play with them whenever I feel like it', that creates dangerous possibilities for the Association."

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