Anthony Daly: Are referees and the GAA trying to destroy our game or what?

I’M not exactly revealing any home truths when I say that hurling people, especially myself, can be snobby, particularly when it comes to football. We don’t believe that we have a discipline problem in our game, unlike our cousins with the big ball.

Anthony Daly: Are referees and the GAA trying to destroy our game or what?

I’M not exactly revealing any home truths when I say that hurling people, especially myself, can be snobby, particularly when it comes to football. We don’t believe that we have a discipline problem in our game, unlike our cousins with the big ball.

That attitude may sometimes exist in a blurry grey space, but the increasingly technical regulations used to distinguish between black and white is threatening to do more harm than good, with referees leaning more towards black.

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