Kieran Shannon: Stephen Cluxton uncertainty adds to sense Dublin are vulnerable

Without clarity on Cluxton, more so than being without Cluxton, the aura is slightly fading, the gap is narrowing

GONE OR NOT? Uncertainty about Stephen Cluxton’s Dublin future could become a major distraction, warns Kieran Shannon, who writes: ‘If Cluxton is to come back this season, it has to be in the next fortnight. Any later one will be unfair to the group.’ Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Maybe he’s just doing a Jack or a Mannion.

Maybe, like them, we’ll see Stephen Cluxton back in blue, just as they’ve returned before from sabbaticals, and in Dermot Connolly’s case in 2019, as late as the quarter-final round of the All-Ireland series.