Limerick, Clare, Tipperary and Waterford are set to lobby the Munster Council for the open draw format to be reinstated to its provincial senior football championship.

The Council reverted to a seeded draw for this year's championship, meaning the 'big two' of Cork and Kerry couldn't meet until the final. The move enraged the province's other four counties who withdrew from the McGrath Cup and also refused to make their players available for inter-provincial duty in protest at the decision.

But it has now emerged that representatives of the four counties met last night with a view to forcing the Munster Council into a U-turn at its next meeting in Castletroy on Thursday, September 11. A decision on the format will need to be made then as the draws for the 2015 championships are due to take place in mid-October.

"The Limerick view is anything but what we have now," Limerick football committee chairman John Cregan told the Limerick Leader.

"Earlier in the year we discussed it at a football committee meeting when debating the future of the McGrath Cup and the mood was for a return to some form of open draw. In the coming days I will be taking instructions from the football committee, from the senior football management and then bring a proposal," he added.

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