Jim Gavin says he has faith in deputy netminder Evan Comerford

It isn’t so long since Alan Brogan and others were speculating as to whether Stephen Cluxton’s guardianship of the Dublin nets would stretch past the quiet one’s 40th birthday.

Only a handful of months, in fact, but the All-Ireland champions are already discovering what life come high summer might be like without the man who has made more championship appearances than any other.

Jim Gavin’s goalkeeper and skipper will be 37 next December and he has started every championship game for his county since 2004. It’s a remarkable run but one likely to end come Sunday’s Leinster final against Laois.