There is, however, still some way to go before consensus is reached on a preferred structure.
More than half of the respondents to an in-depth survey stated they supported one of the two football championship structure proposals emanating from the Fixtures Calendar Review Task Force – or, in the case of Longford, suggested something more radical still.
That equates to 56 per cent in favour of change, with 20 per cent opposed.
Motion 18 (Proposal A) and 19 (Proposal B), from the Fixture Calendar Review Task Force (FCRTF) were chief among those 10 motions deferred until Special Congress with no immediate urgency for the GAA to decide as any new format would not come into force until 2022.