Tomas Brady is enjoying his extended run in the Dublin football team.
The former hurling full back, who twice suffered cruciate ligament injuries in 2011 and 2013, has started every one of Dublin's competitive games this year - five in the O'Byrne Cup and four in the Allianz League - in the absence of established forwards such as Paul Flynn, Diarmuid Connolly and Alan Brogan.
"Some lads don't fancy playing in the winter but when your game-time has been limited over the last 12 months, you definitely enjoy the chance to play," the Na Fianna man told reporters yesterday,
"With those two guys (Flynn and Connolly) to come back, they are All Stars and two of the best players in the country and are going to get in somewhere.
"All I can do is concentrate on doing what I can and what I am being asked to do. Hopefully put those questions in Jim (Gavin's) head when he is picking the team, and put yourself in the frame for big games later on in the year. I have to focus on what I can do rather than worry about what other players are there, and work on what I can control."
The 27-year-old added: "Staying relatively injury-free has been a great help. We all know there are guys coming back, but we are the guys with the jerseys so we have to try and perform as best we can and do the jobs we are asked to do to hang onto those jerseys."
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