Eight week plan for Monaghan championships to go before clubs
June 18, 2020
Scotstown's Micheal McCarville is surrounded by the Clontibret defence. ©INPHO/Lorraine O'Sullivan.
by John P Graham
Monaghan county Board has set out a plan for an eight weeks time frame to run off their club football championships starting from the August bank holiday weekend.
With teams in each of the three grades, senior, intermediate and junior, divided into two groups of five and each side having two home and two away games, there will be seven successive weeks of senior and intermediate action until the 13th of September when the semi-finals are scheduled to take place. Then a two weeks break to the finals on September .27th.
The structure that is proposed is that the first placed teams in each group will automatically progress to the semi-finals with second and third placed advancing to the quarter-final stage while fourth and fifth go into a relegation play-off. The junior football championship will follow a similar format to the senior and intermediate but with no relegation.
Meanwhile, a reserve competition is being planned that would run from September to November when it is expected the county team will in action but again, we’d have to see, depending on circumstances, if there was still an appetite for a competition like that at that stage.
The chairman of the Monaghan Competitions Control Committee, Austin Corrigan, said: "The above structure is one that his committee has drawn up and it has been forwarded to the clubs for discussion and consideration. Clubs then have a certain amount of time during which their feedback will be taken on board by the relevant authorities and if they are in agreement, then the proposed structure would have to be ratified at a County committee meeting and new. Championship regulations drawn up which would also have to be ratified by the County committee”.
Corrigan expected that the County committee meeting would be held early in July, but no date has been fixed as of yet.
Regarding a senior hurling championship, Austin Corrigan said: “No plans have been drawn up as the county does not have a Hurling Officer at this moment in time”, but the chairman of CCC expects that they will be contacting the secretaries of the hurling clubs regarding what structure of a hurling championship they would prefer.
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