Shefflin speaks out on skorts controversy with congress vote imminent

The Camogie Association is set to vote on whether or not to permit player to wear shorts during games in a Special Congress in Croke Park on Thursday evening.

The debate has raged both inside and outside camogie circles over the past week following a number of protest measures by senior-inter county players.

Kilkenny and Dublin led the way by initially wearing short for their Leinster Semi-Final before being instructed by the matchday referee to change into skorts or the match would be abandoned.

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A week later, Kilkenny and Wexford's provincial final was played 'under protest' with players not consenting to photography or streaming of the game due to the mandatory wearing of skorts.

"In fairness to the girls, they were mad to the play the match (against Wexford) but they felt they all had to stick together on this," Shefflin told the Kilkenny People Sport Podcast.

"They (the players) shouldn't have to make these kind of decisions, them things should be taken out of their hands. The girls are there to play matches, not to decide whether a match goes ahead or not," the Kilkenny manager added.

"Anything they (the players) decided, us as managers would back them 100%."

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