Cluxton would be part of his backroom team alongside former team-mates Dean Rock and Denis Bastick<\/a>, and speaking to RT\u00c9 Sport, Brennan ruled out any playing capacity for Cluxton.<\/p>\n“Stephen won’t be playing,” Brennan said. “He’s there 100% as a coach-selector.”<\/p>\n
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Asked whether Cluxton had considered continuing his playing career next season, Brennan replied: “I honestly don’t know is the answer\u2026I didn’t ask him.”<\/p>\n
“He has given so much to the set-up. He’s been an incredible servant to Dublin GAA and his desire to want to give back and certainly help in identifying the next goalkeeper for Dublin GAA is certainly something he’s excited about.”<\/p>\n
Brennan had a number of chats with his former team-mate before about a role within the management team. With goalkeeping coach Josh Moran \u2013 who has worked closely with Cluxton – remaining in place, the coaching role will have a wider remit.<\/p>\n
While Brennan wouldn’t stretch as far as to use the word retirement – “he’s probably not one for announcements” – the St Vincent’s clubman said it will be a huge boon to have one of the game’s deep thinkers on the sideline.<\/p>\n
“His ability to actually read the game is second to none, whether it’s attack play or defensive play,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He certainly knows what works, what defenders don’t like, and certainly what goalkeepers don’t like. So, he’s going to bring that playing experience to his coaching experience and he’ll be heavily involved in all aspects of coaching on the field. I’m just delighted to have him.<\/p>\n
“Off the field, every decision he makes is made with Dublin GAA in mind and that’s something which certainly helped the group get to where it got to under Pat Gilroy, Jim Gavin and then Dessie Farrell subsequently.<\/p>\n
“Having someone like him to remain part of the set-up, albeit in a coaching capacity, it’s great to have him there.”<\/p>\n
Follow the RT\u00c9 Sport WhatsApp channel<\/a> for the best news, interviews, analysis and features, as well as details of our sports coverage across all RT\u00c9 platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Dublin manager Ger Brennan has said goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton ‘100%’ won\u2019t be playing for the Metropolitans next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-14536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}