‘Talks can solve senior cup impasse’

It is an issue that is currently dividing rugby folk across Munster and threatens to surface across Ireland but there are plenty of solutions to the issue of Munster Senior Schools Cup contenders recruiting players at the expense of rival schools, clubs and inter-provincial youth teams.

All that is needed, according to one observer knowledgeable about the current impasse, is for the opposing sides to sit down across a table and thrash their problems out.

The crux of the matter is a motion passed this month by the Munster Branch’s age-grade committee that will stop players who transfer from one school to another from the 2013-14 school year from competing for their new school in the Munster Senior Schools Cup for a year after enrolling.