Munster remains open

The 2013 Munster SFC draw next Thursday will be an open one. Provincial council chairman Sean Walsh confirmed there was “only some appetite” to seed the competition.

Back in June, Walsh revealed the council had asked counties to discuss at their monthly meetings the prospect of keeping Cork and Kerry on different sides of the draw.

It was explained that the idea of going back to the system last in operation in 2008 was raised as a budgetary issue. Walsh pointed out that the level of funding to counties is considerably higher when Cork and Kerry meet in Munster finals.