First some cupboard tidying. Dublin manager Jim Gavin didn’t only scoff afterwards at reports that Jason Sherlock had left his management set-up – he encouraged anyone yet to watch the “excellent” Jayo documentary, purportedly central to his ‘departure’, to do so.

Players stop playing all the time. Yet, when top players stop playing we are led to believe that among the list of things they can offer, in return to the game that gave them so much, is coaching. This may well be the case, but it is not a given.

When Jason Sherlock's playing days with Dublin ended in 2010, the void left by 16 years of inter-county commitment hit him hard, but rather than launch into coaching the 1995 All-Ireland winner took a step back to gain some perspective.

When Jim Gavin admits he’s not a defensive coach, it might come across as peculiar that he added Jason Sherlock to his backroom team this season with a brief on improving Dublin’s attack.