BERNARD BROGAN COMPLETED his long-awaited return from injury on Sunday afternoon, briefly replacing Mark Schutte in the latter stages of Dublinโs Super 8s clash with Roscommon at Croke Park.
The 2010 Footballer of the Year suffered a devastating cruciate injury in February, with early reports suggesting his Championship season could have been over before it even began.
Brogan replaced Schutte after 61 minutes to rapturous applause, as Dublin comfortably led Kevin McStayโs side with their place in next weekendโs All-Ireland semi-finals already secured.
The forward underwent an operation at the end of February to repair the cruciate ligament damage he suffered in a training session with Dublin.
Sundayโs brief appearance, spending a little under six minutes on the field of play, represents Broganโs first taste of football in six months.
Bernard Brogan makes his first appearance of the Championship as Dublin continue to cruise through@DubGAAOfficial 4-23@RoscommonGAA 2-11#TheToughest pic.twitter.com/WuSLEwHClU
โ AIB_GAA (@AIB_GAA) August 5, 2018
The42 is on Instagram! Tap the button below on your phone to follow us!
Slippy G knowns how to win a league. Oh wait
Get in, love it. Making a contest of it Rangers, Stevie making a cracking start to management.
@Marty Morrisey: Rangers are rank rotten ,Terrible side ,Celtic will pump them next week.
@Midland Celt: And yet they lie 1 point off the Pumpers.
@Marty Morrisey: BTW With a game in Hand ,
@Midland Celt: like literally pump them?
@Marty Morrisey: you are a sad sad troll .
@Niall James Fergal McCormack: Cheers for the glorious input shorty.
@Marty Morrisey: thanks you sad man . Not sure what the shorty comment is about but f**k me I hope you are under 18 because if not it makes the way you act on the 42 even sadder . Grow up !
@Niall James Fergal McCormack: Glorious input cheers shortie.
@Marty Morrisey: you had the spelling of โshortyโ correct the first time. Trolling with illiteracy, Marty, is only a step above fingering a badger.
@Ian Michael OโCarroll: 1 in the stink 2 in the pink like ?
@Ian Michael OโCarroll: fingering a badger. Lol.
Steven Gerardโs Rangers were awful from start to finish. A team completely devoid of ideas. It was great to watch them toil. Morelos gets into great positions and pulled them out of a hole.
Iโd imagine Celtic canโt wait for the game on the 29th.
@Ciaran Rice: 3 points all the same.
@Mark Glynn: of course but that doesnโt mask how poor Steven Gerardโs Rangers are.
@Ciaran Rice: To be fair though, they are a growing side..have had to start all over again and are making progress
@Mark Glynn: eh, the side has been getting worse every week. They are now making very few chances and scoring hardly any goals. There also have around the same points total after this round of games as they did last season.
@Ciaran Rice: If celtic win their game in hand it puts 4 points between the teams. A couple weeks back you were giving out that the Premiership has no competition when City were 3 points clear haha
@Turkish: I said the SPFL is more competitive than the EPL this season (and last season), which it is. Celtic are a point ahead. There have been 5 changes for first place in December alone. There are currently only 11 points separating 1st to 8th and 6 different sides have led the league so far this season.
Liverpool have played almost an entire round of games and are still unbeaten. Not much competition there.
@Ciaran Rice: so there not making progress, from having to start in bottom division with a new crop of players-now there in the premiership..
@Mark Glynn: if you think finishing 3rd every season, spending more than any other side whilst winning nothing is progressing then thatโs up to you.
@Ciaran Rice: How much more than Celtic did they spend this season?
@Ciaran Rice: what do you mean winning nothing. Rangers secured promotion back to the Premiership having won three promotions in four years.
@The Bloody Nine: think they spent 2-3 million more than Celtic. That is going on the reported ยฃ9 million Celtic spent on Edouard, which I donโt believe is the case. The Rangers also spent more than Celtic last summer also.
@Mark Glynn: back to the premiership? They had never been there in the first place.
@Ciaran Rice: you sure mate, pretty sure itโs called the Scottish Premiership. Do your research.
Who is this Rangers you speak of? Are they anything to Steven Gerrards Rangers??
Doing well on a shoe string budget hopefully rangers pull of a shock with this squad and win it
@Colgate: oh god heโs got yet another account
@Colgate: spent most in the league . Your trolling is poor and creating new accounts so often is pathetic . Grow up !
@Niall James Fergal McCormack: 2 people on this article, just article alone you have attacked. Glorious input as per shorty.
@Marty Morrisey: 2 people? You mean you and you!! You are as bad as Andy Gorum!!!
@Marty Morrisey: what a sad sad person.. people like u that sit in there room all day and have 1 friend thatโs your 8 year old sister!!
@Jay Murphy: I have 6 sisterโs all older than me. Hugs n Xโs JJ
@Marty Morrisey: haha shortie . I like the way thatโs sticking for you because it makes no sense . Are you trolling yourself ? Iโve no idea what you are talking about but you are a very sad man .