Letters of the alphabet could be used to identify players who return to the playing field after treatment for a blood injury if a motion from the Rules Advisory Committee gets the green light at next month's Congress.

The GAA has released all 63 motions that will be up for discussion at the annual get-together which will be held in Croke Park and they are proposing a change to the numbering of jerseys.

"A player shall not wear a jersey with a number over the maximum number specified. Where a replacement jersey is required for a player who is returning to the field of play following treatment for a 'Blood Injury', it shall bear his original number or be identified alphabetically - A, B,C, D, E etc."

From a hurling point of view, Carlow has submitted a motion seeking to change the structure of the Leinster SHC.

The Barrowsiders, Antrim, Laois, London and Westmeath have to face each other on a round-robin basis this summer to see which two of the five will progress to the quarter-finals alongside the likes of Dublin, Kilkenny, Offaly, Wexford and Galway.

They argue that if one of those qualifiers subsequently defeats one of the province's 'big guns' in the last eight, then they should be granted their quarter-final berth the following year.

There's also an effort to combat racism in gaelic football and hurling with the 'Standing Committee on Playing Rules' proposing that any player found guilty of acting "by deed, word or gesture of a racist, sectarian or anti inclusion/diversity nature against an opponent" to be shown a red card.

Cork goalkeeper Anthony Nash's free-taking technique, meanwhile, is being blamed for the same committee's decision to submit a motion which proposes that players will not be allowed "to advance the ball deliberately from the place at which a free puck, penalty puck or sideline puck is to be struck from". Tweet

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