Dublin hurling manager Anthony Daly says he would walk away from his job if faced with the same situation confronting Justin McCarthy in Limerick.
Dublin hurling manager Anthony Daly says he would walk away from his job if faced with the same situation confronting Justin McCarthy in Limerick.
McCarthy has lost 24 players from his senior panel after a row erupted when he dropped 12 big names from the squad before Christmas, controversially citing discipline and commitment issues as the reason. In response, most of the remaining 2009 panel have downed tools and recently released a hard-hitting statement vowing never to play for the manager again.
McCarthy is now facing into a tough league campaign with a squad of callow youths and Dublin boss Daly, while minding his own business, has admitted that he would walk away if in the same predicament.
"Everyone has to assess that for themselves, you know, there are various situations," he said.
"I don't think I'd like to stay on board at the moment if 24 guys didn't want me.
"That would just be my own personal thing but, again, I don't know the ins and outs of it (in Limerick). I don't want to know about it. That's their own look out. My own look out is that Dublin is a relatively happy camp."
However, despite building pressure and the lack of any viable option but to step down, as eventually happened in Cork last year in a similar situation, McCarthy is thus far digging his heels in and refusing to budge.