Daly not a fan of unwieldy 10-team top flight

Dublin senior hurling manager Anthony Daly believes a 10-team Allianz Hurling League Division 1 is unworkable.

Instead, Daly would prefer to see the return of an eight-team top flight — with two teams relegated and promoted each year. And Clare’s 1995 and 1997 All-Ireland-winning captain insisted that GAA chiefs should not have radically altered a system that he believed was working just fine.

He said: “I don’t really know why they changed it in the first place.