Austin Stacks in relegation scrap

Milltown-Castlemaine 2-9 Austin Stacks 2-6: It could only happen in Kerry! Last year’s county champions Austin Stacks are staring down the barrel of relegation from the senior championship to the intermediate ranks in 2016.

Stacks were beaten by unfancied Milltown/Castlemaine, in the first round of the relegation play-off games, at Castleisland on Saturday and there was no fluke about it.

Stacks find themselves facing a doomsday scenario, because of the recommendations of a Review Committee, ironically chaired by Tony O’Keeffe, a former Austin Stacks great that has decreed, only eight clubs sides instead of the current eleven, can only play in the SFC of 2016.