There are no guarantees in sport: Jason Sherlock

Dublin forwards coach, Jason Sherlock, says the current Dubs squad only need check the history books if they need a lesson in how fortunes can rapidly change at top end Gaelic football.

While the Dubs are basking in the glory of back-to-back All-Irelands the 1995 All-Ireland SFC winner says the players will remain grounded despite all their successes of recent years.

Jayo was part of a Dublin squad that defeated Meath by ten points in the 1995 Leinster final on their way to the county's first All-Ireland success since 1983 but the following year an emerging Meath team took the Dubs out en route to the Sam Maguire themselves.

"I only have to look across the room (at former Meath star Trevor Giles) and my own playing career where we beat a team by ten points and the following year they beat us and won an All-Ireland. And then it took us seven years to beat them. That's how fickle sport can be," said Jason at Wednesday's Leinster GAA and GPA coaching initiative for retired players at the GAA Centre in Abbottstown,

"But I think the one thing that, because of the barren years that myself, Deccie Darcy, Jim Gavin, Mick Deegan to a certain extent had, that will certainly ground the team. And there's some of the players - Stephen Cluxton, Denis Bastick - they've been through it as well.

"So we all know there's no guarantees in sport. At the moment Dublin are in a really good space, but as we know it can change very quickly," adds Jason.

(Pictured above) John Doyle of Kildare, Trevor Giles of Meath, Richie Power of Kilkenny, Jason Sherlock of Dubiln, and Colm Nally of Louth, in attendance as Leinster GAA and GPA announce coaching initiative for retired players at the GAA Centre in Abbottstown.