THE MUNSTER COUNCIL tonight decided that they will be sticking with their new controversial seeding system for the 2014 senior football championship.
On 12 September, the Munster Controls Competition Committee (CCC) voted 6 to 3 in favour of recommending that Cork and Kerry would be seeded for next year’s provisional championship and, later that night, the Council accepted the recommendation.
Limerick had been one of the majority six counties but, after some of their players expressed their discontent, the county did a U-turn while players from Clare, Tipperary and Waterford also objected to the ruling.
At the request of Clare, however, a special emergency meeting was held to discuss the matter in Limerick tonight and the new format was upheld.
“The Chairman Robert Frost ruled that the Munster Council has no jurisdiction to revisit the original decision taken on September 12th as this would be in breach of rule 3.31 (e) which states that alterations may be considered only on an annual basis,” a statement read.
“The Chairman referred to the alteration made at the September 12th meeting to change the format of the Championship from the 2013 structure.”
