The Jim Gavin and Malachy O'Rourke eras, both successful seven-season long periods, ran virtually concurrently between 2013 and 2019; Gavin managing Dublin for 2,616 days and O'Rourke Monaghan for 2,476.

Having previously not conceded a goal in championship football since April, Kilmacud Crokes leaked three at Parnell Park and came mightily closed to being dumped out of the AIB Leinster club SFC.

They’re favourites for a three-in-a-row of EirGrid Leinster U-21 football titles, and many people’s All-Ireland fancies, but Eoin Murchan says the reality for new look Dublin is 2016 is a ‘clean slate’.