postponed by 12 months<\/a> because of player pushback, the 2027 Munster SFC will seed and separate at the semi-final stage the two highest-ranked counties from this year\u2019s Allianz League, they being beaten Division 1 finalists Kerry and beaten Division 2 finalists Cork.<\/p>\nWith these two counties currently two rungs higher on the league ladder than Clare in Division 3, it is locked in that Cork and Kerry will be the two seeded teams for the 2027 and \u201828 editions of the Munster SFC. Coming in on an initial three-year period, 2029 will be the sole Munster championship where there is a possibility of having a seeded county that is not the province\u2019s two traditional powerhouses.<\/p>\n
Clare chairman Kieran Keating, who previously labelled the League-based seeding system as \u201cretrograde\u201d, believes it only fair that Clare, Limerick, Tipp, and Waterford should receive a \u201cleg up\u201d after the very obvious leg up given to Cork and Kerry.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they are the two best teams, that means they will alternate the final between them every second year. It\u2019ll be Killarney one year and Cork the next. They\u2019ll have that big game as a home game every second year.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs for the other counties, they are expected to promote and develop football with only having a home semi-final on alternate years with those counties and never having a Munster final because our path to the final has been made more difficult.\u00a0There is no possibility of getting an easier route to the Munster final as the luck of the draw might have given us in three of the last four years,\u201d Keating told the Irish Examiner.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo if these counties are a step ahead of the rest, give the rest a leg up by giving them home advantage when they play either one of the two seeded counties.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are going to give two counties an advantage by seeding them, then give some advantage to the other counties. And what we have come up with to give us and the other counties some equitable advantage is to propose that \u2018if ye are that much better than us, lads, come and play us in our venue when we meet’.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
With Munster bosses having proposed League-based seeding format to deliver more competitive Munster deciders, Keating has argued that they should also then want more competitive Munster semi-finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is an ask for Cork and Kerry to have to travel every year for their Munster semi-final while they are the seeded teams, but if they want to take advantage of the seeding, then that is what we\u2019re asking of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if they say, \u2018No, we\u2019re not interested in that\u2019, well then we\u2019d be saying, dispense with the seeding and go back to an open draw and let it fall on home and away arrangements as before. Because if you\u2019re going to take one advantage, give back some advantage. This proposal is about levelling up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The proposal, as outlined above, also extends to Munster finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the time, the Munster final will be in Killarney or Cork, but if one of us happens to prove that the seeding isn\u2019t a fair reflection and if we can take advantage of the semi-final home advantage we are proposing, then that would get us a home Munster final.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It won\u2019t happen often, but it could occasionally. It\u2019ll happen less now than it did in the recent past because the openness of the draw has been removed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The proposal, which will be voted on at the July meeting of the Munster Council, requires 60% support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster GAA will vote next month on a Clare proposal to give unseeded counties in the province’s senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177329,30041,6937,72371,5582,7026,1964,61,60,17406,112],"class_list":["post-492259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-championship-2026","tag-clare-gaa","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-munster-gaa","tag-tipperary-gaa","tag-waterford-gaa","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-gaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}