We will pay heavy price for same mistakes again: Alan Brogan

Alan Brogan is hopeful that Dublin's four-week break until their All-Ireland semi-final against Mayo or Donegal (Sunday, August 30) can work to the advantage of Jim Gavin's team.

“I suppose there’s pros and cons. One of the pros is that we’ll obviously take it relatively easy this week, then we’ll have two weeks where we will be able to get a good bank of training done. We maybe wouldn’t have had that when there’s only a three-week break," says the St Oliver Plunkett's/Eoghan Ruadh man.

“It’ll give us an opportunity to get a good couple of in-house games and a good couple of training sessions under our belt, which would be important for us."

It will also afford Dublin time to address the lack of focus over the conclusion of last Sunday's quarter-final victory over Fermanagh.

Seán Quigley's controversial goal seemed to be the catalyst to a pantomime finish to their encounter.

"We probably got a bit sloppy after that (first goal) - it probably affected our mindset a little bit. I think we’d be more worried by how it affected us afterwards, more than the actual goal,” says Alan.

“From our point of view, going forward in the championship, you won’t be able to afford mistakes like that.

“If something does happen in a match, we need to be focussed more; not to let it affect the play after that.

“That’s something we’ve worked an awful lot on, maintaining our focus after a refereeing decision, a wide or whatever, a missed goal - that you do maintain your focus.”