Who's fooling who? Is it time for GAA to embrace squad numbers?

In a club intermediate football game in Donegal last weekend Buncrana made 22 changes to the match programme team.
Who's fooling who? Is it time for GAA to embrace squad numbers?

NUMBERS GAME: Henry Shefflin, Kilkenny, wearing the unfamiliar number 28 jersey.
Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile 

Cork football selector Des Cullinane says the evidence supporting the need for squad numbers at both club and county level has never been greater.

Cullinane was a member of the Hurling 2020 group that proposed their introduction for the 2015 Liam MacCarthy Cup only for Central Council to later reject the recommendation.

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