"We feel disrespected" - Limerick boss Lee disappointed with Munster SFC seeding vote

Limerick manager Jimmy Lee has hit out at the decision to seed the Munster senior football championship for a three-year period starting next season.

It was confirmed at Thursday evening’s Munster Council meeting that the 2026 Munster SFC would see Kerry and Cork are seeded in opposite sides of provincial competition’s semi-finals.

The seedings are based on the previous year’s Allianz League positions, with the Kingdom having captured the Division 1 title at the end of March and the Rebels finishing fifth in Division 2. Clare are next in the pecking order after claiming third place in Division 3 while Limerick earned promotion to the third tier before defeating Wexford in the Division 4 final – a division which saw Waterford finishing in bottom place.

Limerick’s players and management had expressed their desire to vote against the seeded Munster championship, but the Munster Council meeting saw Limerick county board voting in favour of it.

Speaking to Live95FM Sport, Lee expressed his deep disappointment at the decision from the board.

"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,” he said.

“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 the reason why the Limerick board voted in favour of the proposal two days ago, Lee stated: "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."