Alan Brogan isn't prepared to settle for a place on the bench this summer.

The 33-year-old Dublin veteran sat out the national football league due to the birth of his second child in March but is convinced he's still good enough to feature for the defending Leinster champions in this year's championship:

"I still think I'm good enough to play. If I didn't, I wouldn't be here. If I thought I was going to be a sub for the whole championship, would I have come back? Probably not. I came back to get into the team. We all know how competitive a squad it is at the same time. So I'll just have to give it the best go I can," the former Footballer of the Year comments in The Irish Examiner.

 "At this stage of my career, I'm coming back to try to win an All-Ireland. It doesn't always work like that but I believe we have a strong enough team to compete. It didn't work out the way we wanted last year but we saw in the past, it has proven very difficult to put All-Irelands back to back."

The elder Brogan sibling also accepts that this is likely to be his last year to pull on the sky blue shirt: "Yeah, look, it probably will. I haven't really thought about that, to be honest with you. That's probably something I'll decide come the end of September hopefully. But as each year goes past, it does get harder and harder. It's certainly coming close anyway for me.

"Is that an extra incentive? Of course. If you know it's going to be your last chance, you want to give it everything you can. That certainly does play a part in the mindset and that's probably the way I'll treat it."

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