Daly plays up the positives — for Clare

Anthony Daly has had so many great days and evenings in Cusack Park as Clare captain during the county’s celebrated golden age in the ’90s.

But on Saturday night it was the setting for one of his worst days as a manager. His bigger, stronger, more experienced and supposedly better Dublin team having their colours lowered by Clare’s bold young cubs.

“It wouldn’t have been the sort of excitement we’d be looking for but you have to take these things on the chin,” he said.