Daly hails success of new league format

GAA head of games Pat Daly has hailed the new hurling league format, although he doesn’t rule out changes to it in the near future.

Following on from director general Páraic Duffy’s praise of it last week, Daly believes it has worked well and increased competition. Dublin and Galway face each other in a relegation play-off this Sunday and Daly expects a real edge to the game.

However, there are opponents of the new structure. Despite earning promotion to Division 1A on Saturday, Clare manager Davy Fitzgerald argued the top-flight should be increased from six to 10 teams. But Daly believes the system, initially devised by the Hurling Development Committee (HDC), has proved successful.