Coasting never an option for Jim Gavin’s merciless Dubs

In hurling, there is no longer a Kilkenny that bestrides the narrow world like a colossus but in football there is.

The way Dublin set about another league campaign last weekend, making Kildare peep about to find themselves dishonourable graves, underlined just how Cats-like Dublin have been in nearly everything they do in recent years.

Once it was Cody who overshadowed the landscape like Caesar once did Rome. Now that spectre is Gavin.