Caffrey to start tried and tested

Team News:In what must be considered the most consistent season of Paul Caffrey's three-year term selecting Dublin teams, the same line-up that overcame Derry in the All-Ireland quarter-final has again been retained for the 24th championship meeting with Kerry this Sunday in Croke Park.

The only change is positional, as Jason Sherlock moves into corner forward and Alan Brogan starts at centre forward.

The only alterations since the Leinster championship opener against Meath are the two young forwards Mark Vaughan and Bernard Brogan cementing their places in the forward line ahead of Tomás Quinn and Dermot Connolly.

The only panel member not considered for selection was St Vincent's defender Ger Brennan due to a groin problem. Brennan featured throughout the league campaign before eventually losing out to seasoned wing backs Paul Casey and Barry Cahill.

Ten players remain from the last championship meeting between the teams in 2004, a game Kerry won pulling up, 1-15 to 1-8.

The players who did not feature that day are David Henry, Ross McConnell, Collie Moran, Bernard Brogan and Vaughan.

The last time Dublin beat Kerry in the championship was exactly 30 years ago yesterday when Bernard Brogan Snr, the father of current forwards Alan and Bernard Jnr, scored a memorable late goal.

Meanwhile, the man to succeed Joe Kernan as Armagh manager will be announced within a fortnight, revealed county board chairman Kevin Brady yesterday.

Brady's comments came the same day Cavan announced Paul Grimley has resigned his position as assistant manager "to pursue his challenge to become Armagh senior team boss. Paul was instrumental in gaining Cavan promotion to Division Two and will be missed by Donal Keogan and his team," read a county board statement.

Grimley was Kernan's number two from 2002 to 2006, after which he was replaced by John Rafferty, who is another strong contender for the position. Other men to have interviewed for the job are under-21 manager Peter McDonnell and former Crossmaglen Rangers manager Michael McConville, but Brady stated the "net has since widened to include further candidates".

Roscommon have retained the services of John Maughan as football manager for at least another season.

Paddy Dixon, the centre back on Meath's first All-Ireland senior football winning team in 1949, has died at the age of 84. The former Ballivor clubman is only the sixth member of that history-making side to pass away.

DUBLIN (SF v Kerry): S Cluxton; D Henry, R McConnell, P Griffin; P Casey, B Cullen, B Cahill; C Whelan, S Ryan; C Moran, A Brogan, B Brogan; J Sherlock, C Keaney, M Vaughan.