Shane McGrath: Chris Crummey appeal would be a waste of time
RTÉ hurling analyst Shane McGrath has said that he feels any potential Dublin appeal over Chris Crummey's red card against Limerick has no chance of success.
The player was sent off after 15 minutes of his side's famous win at Croke Park, and while it is yet to be confirmed whether Dublin will appeal or not, McGrath can't see the Lucan man appearing in the All-Ireland semi-final against Cork.
While there has been no argument about Crummey's raised elbow, there's been debate over the level of contact with Gearoid Hegarty with Liam Rushe saying "I'd question how much (contact), how physical that is" on The Saturday Game.
"He's not playing in the semi-final," McGrath said on the RTÉ GAA podcast.
"I'd be contradicting myself if I said he should get away with it when I was saying during the league that these head high tackles (need to stop).
"I suppose you're putting yourself in a situation that you don't want to.
"It was just a moment thing. As soon as the elbow went up, no more so than when Darragh McCarthy's hurley went up against Cork, he was getting sent off."
On the game itself, Walsh felt that the boon of such a victory is almost immeasurable when it comes to promoting hurling in the capital.
"It's ten years of development in one match," he said.
"You could have the next 10 years going around to schools and going around clubs in Dublin and asking people to get into hurling, and what you had there on Saturday was that rolled into one.
"Imagine if Ireland went to a World Cup and knocked Brazil out in the quarter-final, everyone in the country wants to play soccer then."
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