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Published 22:09 23 Feb 2019 GMT
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And do you know what? It would've been the easiest thing in the world for Jim Gavin to recall Stephen Cluxton, the orchestrator, the safe hands, the captain. With no more room for error, with an undefeated Mayo side in town, few eyelids would've been batted at the decision to bring back Cluxton after a tough night for Evan Comerford in Kerry.
But the manager obviously trusts the understudy of the best goalkeeper of all time and, in their biggest game of the season so far, the Ballymun native showed some real mettle.
When Dublin needed a playmaker from their own 20', Comerford was pulling strings. When they needed a calm head, Comerford didn't freak. On Saturday night, he looked like he belonged in Croke Park as he picked out inches of its turf for fun and kept the Dublin machine turning like... well, like Cluxton himself was in the controls room.
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And, to top it all off, he produced a fine penalty stop in the first half too, to deny Jason Doherty.
He read where it was going, he acted with his head before reacting like a cat with his body and managed to turn away a decent, decent strike from Doherty.
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As it was, Dublin afforded Mayo just seven miserly points across 77 minutes of football. Comerford gave them nothing that he was in control of.
When other managers might've deemed it too big a risk to throw him in again for this game of all games, Gavin saw it as an opportunity, and Comerford used it to announce his bottle and all his talent.
He'll be alright, that one.
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