The Leinster Council will decide today on the date and venue for the second replay of the provincial club football final.

After referee Brian White decided against playing extra time in Tullamore yesterday, it was revealed that Eire Og of Carlow and Dublin's Kilmacud Crokes have contrasting views on when the match should be played.

Eire Og favour leaving the match until after Christmas whereas Kilmacud want to play it next week. At official level, anyway.

Centre forward Mick Dillon who captained the All-Ireland winning side of four seasons ago was more ambivalent.

"I'd prefer it on a decent pitch," he replied when asked about his preference. "I don't mind when it is but in fairness next week is the last Sunday before Christmas and there'll be Christmas parties and everything."

Pat Critchley, Eire Og's manager, was definite. "I think it should be played after Christmas. The pitches are very, very heavy at the moment and it was a good decision not to play extra time today because it would have been physically dangerous.

"Even the Newbridge pitch (venue for the drawn match but unavailable yesterday because of the Kildare county final) is very heavy and that would be three Sundays in a row with matches on it."

He expressed himself happy with the team's performance. "With Willie (Quinlan) being out, they responded very well and played with a passion that I didn't see there last Sunday and deserved the draw in the end."

Mick Dillon said that Kilmacud had been "disappointed again to have left the match behind" but he felt that "both teams will be happy with the draw".

On the subject of the attempted point that Mick O'Keeffe had disallowed (following a similar controversy concerning Ray Cosgrove last week), Dillon referred to the size of the Tullamore posts.

"They're the smallest I've ever seen but Brian White (referee) seemed to be in no doubt about it. But I believe he said to Ray Cosgrove before he took the free at the end - `put it over the middle so there's no arguments'."