Tyrone star Sean Cavanagh admits that Dublin's current well-being is "scary".

The dominant Dubs have won four successive national football leagues, three of the last five All-Irelands and ten of the last eleven Leinster SFCs. If anything, they seem to be pulling further away from the rest of the contenders:

"It's scary how dominant they've been over the last three years but you can do nothing else but sit back and credit Jim Gavin and what he's been able to do with that group of players and put together such a strong and powerful running team," the former Footballer of the Year notes.

"They do flood numbers back - I saw Bernard Brogan defending as much as Johnny Cooper yesterday but at the same time they have that pace and power and strength to blow teams away at the other end and you could see the Kerry lads out on their feet after 50 to 55 minutes and that's where that games are won and that's where Dublin are experts at wearing teams down. You've got to give them credit because I haven't seen a team since I've been involved in football who have been so dominant.

"It's mad like, obviously I've been playing Gaelic football a long time but to have that sort of dominance for a sustained period is incredible. In reality they could have had Donegal beaten in the first 10-15 minutes of that [2014 All-Ireland] semi-final and that's the only game they've let themselves down in in the past three years. Even in that game they had a few chances to whitewash Donegal and they probably would have gone on to win the final as well.

"Most teams will look to three or four players but they don't seem to have that, they're just a well-oiled machine and Jim Gavin has them firing on all cylinders. I just hope they have a blip somewhere along the line but it's difficult to see that coming at this stage."

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