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1st June 2018
10:19pm BST

Jack McCaffrey and Paul Flynn are back in the selection mix along with Cormac Costello but Parkinson does not see the 23-year-old forcing his way past the likes of Mannion or the indispensable Rock. He commented:
"Costello just does not get into that full forward line. That full forward line is set in stone - it's Rock, Kilkenny and it's Mannion. "And I'm sorry for anyone else that wants to get onto that full forward line because it's not going to happen. That's set! "I think the half forward line is set too. It's Howard, Con O'Callahan and it's Scully. I don't think there's a place in there for anyone... not Flynn. That's for now. That's set; I think he wants to go for youth."That would see the likes of Flynn, Costello, Andrews, Kevin McManamon and Collie Basquel all in a support role when the championship gets to the latter stages. Diarmuid Connolly looks set to miss the entire summer and Bernard Brogan is still recovering from a bad knee injury. Parkinson agrees with former Dublin midfielder Ciarán Whelan that the new-look side now has a leadership spine of captain Stephen Cluxton, Brian Fenton, Kilkenny, Mannion. That would go along with the likes of Cian O'Sullivan and Philly McMahon. "All these leaders are young guys," he continued. "There is a new breed of player. The old leaders are gone. "This is a new Dublin team with new leaders, and they're all young lads."
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