Joe McQuaid says it's time that GAA chiefs stopped paying "lip service" to the likes of Laois and Westmeath.
The Westmeath boss wants to see the Leinster SHC incorporate at least six teams and up to eight to bring on the counties who are striving to reach the top level.
Westmeath lost to Laois in the Joe McDonagh Cup final and then Laois burst through the glass ceiling a week later by beating Dublin, while Westmeath were hammered by Cork.
That prompted GAA president John Horan to say that Croke Park will have another look at the stuctures.
Leinster Council chief Jim Bolger admitted yesterday that a six-team Leinster championship, or even two groups of four counties, will come under consideration for change in 2021.
Quaid is unhappy that the McDonagh Cup finalists were pressed into action again so soon.
"It just shows the lip service that is paid to the second tier teams," he said.
"Laois bucked the trend last weekend in beating Dublin but while a lot of people said it was a surprise, I wasn't that surprised.
"These guys, they're not living in the real world. It's 'We'll manage it as it happening instead of having a plan'.
"What's wrong with keeping Carlow and Laois, put in maybe Antrim and Westmeath into two groups of four of Leinster and you have a chance to stay up for two years or more and have a chance to develop?
"We saw last Sunday against Cork, the difference in conditioning, the pace of the game, everything - it's massive.
"And we came to Cork, who were after beating the All-Ireland, league and Munster champions Limerick twice this year - we had been playing Division 2a and Joe McDonagh.
"So we were basically on a hiding to nothing - plus it will be the first time in 34 years that we will have Division 1 hurling next year."
Quaid guided Wicklow to victory in the Christy Ring Cup last year but lost a play-off with Antrim before the rule change for this year.
Without that progression, he observes, the Lilywhites lost eight to 10 players for this year.
"If you move both teams (Laois and Westmeath) into the Leinster championship, even make the league a bit bigger, teams will improve.
"The only way you will improve is by playing at a higher level".
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