Limerick football manager Jimmy Lee unhappy with Munster Championship seeding vote

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Limerick senior football manager Jimmy Lee has expressed his disappointment in the decision to seed the Munster senior football championship.

A proposal that the highest 2 ranking teams from the National Football League are placed on opposite sides of the semi-final draw for the following year's Munster senior football championship was ratified for a 3 year period beginning in 2026.

Next season will see Kerry and Cork seeded as semi-finalists with Kerry crowned Division 1 champions last season while Cork finished mid-table in Division 2.

Limerick were promoted to Division 3 and will join Clare in the division next season while Tipperary and Waterford will continue in Division 4.

The Limerick players and management expressed their wishes to vote against the seeded championship ahead of Thursday's Munster Council meeting but the Limerick County Board voted in favour.

Jimmy Lee was frustrated with the county board's decision.

"It feels like a vote of no confidence in us, that's just the way we feel, the way I feel. To be fair about it we feel disrespected, I don't want to words in the rest of the management team's or the player's mouths but that's the feeling I get from it. We got to a Tailteann Cup final, we won a league final, you can argue we weren't far off Cork (Munster Championship) when we had fifteen on fifteen and this is what the county board turn around and do. I know that there are some within the county board that have been advocates for us but you'd think that those on the football side of it would have supported us a bit better, in my opinion."

When asked if he knows why Limerick voted yes on to the proposal, Lee was unsure.

"I don't fully understand it myself, yes there were reasons behind their thought processes but what I said at the last drop of it was bar there being something in writing and the I's are dotted and the T's are crossed I wouldn't be voting for anything, I'd be voting no."

Lee now says that the next step from his side will be to contact the county board and request a meeting along with the players to have an open discussion stating that in his opinion "Limerick football is at stake".

Full interview below.

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