Alan Brogan admits he might not be "too interested" in going to gaelic football games if the current trend of one-sided matches continues.

The 2011 Footballer of the Year watched most of last Sunday's eight point victory over Fermanagh from the bench and that in itself highlights the embarrassment of riches that the Metropolitans have at their disposal.

Speaking to The Herald at the launch of the Asian Gaelic Games, Brogan predicted: "People will stop coming.

"I'm not sure if I'd be too interested to go and watch matches where Dublin are winning by 25 points, or somebody else is winning by 25 points.

"So certainly it's something that has to be looked at - and I would imagine probably sooner rather than later, because the guys in these (weaker) counties just won't want to put in that effort that needs to be put in to really compete at the top level."

He added: "I don't think it's a good thing to see teams coming to Croke Park and losing by 20 or 25 points. I haven't given much thought to how I'd structure a second-tier competition or whether it's worthwhile having a second competition. But, like, it hasn't always been like this.

"We used to play in the Leinster championship against the likes of Laois and Westmeath, and we had some great battles against those teams ... and obviously Meath beat us in 2010. So it seems only really to be in the last four or five years, and maybe it's a product of Dublin being so well organised at underage level.

"Maybe it's a case that as the stronger teams are getting stronger, the so-called weaker teams maybe don't want to put in the same effort because they're not getting rewards out of it. But it's hard for me to say because I'm on this side of the fence."

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