Newly crowned Wexford senior football champions, Kilanerin, have pulled out of the AIB Leinster Club senior football championship.
Kilanerin, who lifted the county title on Saturday afternoon, were scheduled to play Meath Champions Navan O'Mahoney's in their opening round Leinster Club game today, 24 hours after winning the title for the first time since 2003.
However, club chairman Pat Murray said the decision was left to the player and to a man they decided it would not be right to play the game just twenty-four hours after winning the Wexford title.
'We woould have loved to have represented Wexford in the Leinster Club championship. We have always backed Wexford football teams, but given the knocks and injury count, we would have been fielding short at least six to seven players.
‘It's not right to have to play such a tight schedule. We're desperately disappointed to have to pull out but the players feel it's the right decision.'
So for the first time Wexford will not be represented in the Leinster Club senior football championship brought about by the failure of the County Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) to play any championship games in May, with only a single round played in both senior hurling and football during the summer months.
