Coaching corner: Anthony Daly

Former All-Ireland winning Clare captain and current Dublin hurling boss, Anthony Daly

Bravest coaching call, any sport?

“John Allen in the All-Ireland semi-final of 2005, taking off Brian Corcoran and Ronan Curran when Cork were losing to Clare. I was up the sideline from him, managing Clare and thinking: ‘We must have them now if they’re taking them off.’ Of course, he put on Neil Ronan and Wayne Sherlock, who had a major influence on the game and helped win it, but if they hadn’t won it, John would have been blamed for taking Corcoran and Curran off. They were linchpins of the team, big players, and it was a huge call. I often said to (Brian) Lohan after: ‘Why didn’t you give him the odd puck?’, they might have left him on.”