Captains’ boycott threat won’t force board’s hand on UCD

UCD’s participation in next year’s Dublin hurling championship seems all but assured, despite the threat of a player boycott by seven club captains earlier this week.

The statement handed to county secretary John Costelloe said that “the players of the clubs in question will give serious consideration to their non-participation in the 2006 Senior Hurling Championship should any third-level institutions be reinvited.”

However, yesterday chairman John Bailey made it clear that there is no motion for this year’s county convention on the matter and there’s no procedure in place for the board to make an amendment or a late motion.