Gilroy happy to play tinkerman role
From the moment Caffrey took charge in November 2004, he placed his faith in a core of players that blemished their achievement in capturing four successive Leinster titles with consistent failures on the bigger stage.
A frequent criticism during the Caffrey era was that the Dublin panel was akin to a closed shop, an impression given some credence by the fact that ten of the players who started the 2005 Leinster final did likewise four seasons later.