They’re looking unstoppable.
Dublin haven’t put a foot wrong all year, winning their matches by an average of 14.8 points they are the favourites to lift the Sam Maguire for the third year running.
On 17 September they’ll face a stern test from Mayo if they are to go three-in-a-row and no doubt it will be a thriller.
Dublin’s forward line has been nothing short of awesome, it speaks volumes that they have been so dominant and look in cruise control even without Diarmuid Connolly through the summer and very limited use of Bernard Brogan, Kevin McManamon and Paul Flynn, elite forwards in their own right.
Players that seemed undroppable a year or two ago are now struggling to get into a youthful looking forward line, the average age is 24 from the side that started against Tyrone.
There’s something quite phenomenal about the forward line, they rarely make a mistake or a bad decision and are as clinical as you’d like.
They could well be the best forward line of all time given their strength and depth and just how unbelievable they are.
Former Meath forward Cian Ward credit a lot of their success to Jason Sherlock on the GAA Hour earlier in the week:
“I think that Dublin’s forward play is brilliant because I still don’t believe individually that there aren’t forwards out there as good and as talented as what Dublin have,” the Wolf Tones man said.
“There are in other counties, there are players out there, good intelligent footballers and if they had Jason Sherlock like the cohesion with how they move the ball and how they attack and the position to pick up.
“Look it, I don’t know for sure if it is him but I have a strong suspicion that it is Jason Sherlock because there are a lot of brilliant moves brilliant intelligent football.
“He was an exceptionally intelligent player with his movement and his decision making when he played and he definitely has added a huge amount to that Dublin set up,” Ward concluded.
But there’s only so much a coach can do when the players take to the field and something has to click amongst the forwards to flow.
An interesting picture that was snapped at the Leinster final this year shows that the forwards are having a huddle amongst themselves, a team within a team.
It may be a small thing but interesting nonetheless that after a team talk the forwards take it upon themselves to lay it out what they want to be done and what they expect of each other.
