Wexford's physical approach to last Saturday evening's Leinster SHC quarter-final replay came as no surprise to Dublin manager Anthony Daly.

It has been confirmed that the GAA's CCCC are to investigate some of the unsavoury incidents that marred the Parnell Park replay and Daly revealed to the Herald that he had primed his players to keep their heads.

"We sort of expected something," the Clare man said. "We thought Wexford were fairly physical down in Wexford Park. Nothing over-the-top.

"But we sort of expected that they would expect a backlash from us, so we were very careful to say to the lads: 'the backlash will be from winning the ball. The real tough guy will go to the ball, take his belt and win his free.'

"I think they were more wired up for the replay in the wrong way. That cost them a bit. They pulled a bit wildly at times.

"I often remember Loughnane saying to us: 'hard as hell but no wildness. If you're going to hit, hit hard with the body and hit hard with the shoulder and that kind of thing. Use the physicality you have but don't pull wildly because it's easy for a ref to take action if you pull wild'.

"So we did work on that during the week. That we would keep our heads about us. And a couple of the pulls from Wexford lads were loose, to say the least. They did finish up with 14 and maybe they were lucky to finish up with 14." Tweet

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