Cuthbert to reassess dual player arrangement

July 24, 2014

Cork manager Brian Cuthbert.
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Cork football boss Brian Cuthbert has revealed that he will review the dual player arrangement with his hurling counterpart Jimmy Barry-Murphy at the end of the year.

Aidan Walsh, Damien Cahalane and Eoin Cadogan have juggled both codes this season, with many believing it has been to the detriment of the footballers who were hammered by Kerry in the recent Munster SFC final.

"People like dual players understand they have to be treated the same as everybody else," Cuthbert said on 2FM's Game On programme last night.

"When they're playing well, they're playing well and if they're not playing so well, they're not playing so well and must suffer consequences.

"To be fair to Eoin, Aidan and Damien, they're making as good a fist of it as they can. But at the same time, there are drawbacks to it as well. Looking at it from where I'm looking at it, we're managing it as best we can.

"You obviously like to have your players with you all of the time within the group but it's just not the way it worked out this year due to the arrangement that we decided a long time ago. You've to stand and fall on that and players have to stand and fall on that."

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