Time for Dublin to leave Croker comfort zone

How could it be that a former Footballer of the Year doesn’t know what it is to bus it into enemy territory on a big match day?

Here’s a thought: Bernard Brogan has never played a championship match outside of Croke Park. Think about that. Twenty All-Ireland appearances in six years for Dublin and all of them on the same patch of grass.

An exclusive piece of real estate, no doubt about it, but does that not strike you as inherently wrong? And sad, in a way, too? One of his generation’s finest talents and he has never been seen on the days that matter most outside of Dublin 3.