Brogan content as Dublin start with ‘a clean slate’

FORMER All Star, Alan Brogan, does not believe that there will be a major “cull” of players when Pat Gilroy settles on his final Dublin squad for 2010.

Change was inevitable after last summer when the Leinster champions crashed to a 17-point defeat to a Kerry side which struggled through the qualifiers.

“Something had to change,” agreed Brogan. “We’ve taken a couple of beatings over the last few years. I’m saying now for a number of years that we learn from our mistakes from last year but the same things have happened a couple of times. Pat’s aware of that. He knows he has to change something. It’s very difficult to put your finger on what you have to change. If it was that easy, we’d have won an All-Ireland by now. It’s not easy to find out what that X-factor is or whatever it is that we’re missing. Pat’s leaving no stone uncovered.