Daly hits back at ‘manufactured hurlers’ barb

Former Dublin manager Anthony Daly has rejected criticism of his former players as being "manufactured hurlers" as well as Ger Loughnane’s and Donal Óg Cusack’s stance on the dual player dilemma.

In his new autobiography Dalo which will be in shops this week, Daly does accept Dublin hurling has to improve and change, especially by spreading the game into “hurling wastelands”, but he makes a stern defence of his former players as well as his own handling of the dual player issue.

After Dublin’s All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Tipperary — which proved to be Daly’s last game over the team — The Sunday Game panel claimed Dublin had too many “manufactured hurlers” and also proposed that players should be choosing one GAA code over the other before they turn minor.