Dublin star Bernard Brogan has refused to rule out playing inter-county football for another season.
Instead the 35-year-old intends to meet Dublin boss Jim Gavin next week with an open mind.
Brogan's only Championship appearance this summer was off the bench in a Super 8s dead rubber with Tyrone.
He was an unused substitute in the All-Ireland final replay win over Kerry after failing to make Gavin's squad in the drawn final.
But, despite being winning a historic fifth successive All-Ireland title with Dublin and the seventh of his career, Brogan is thinking twice about hanging up his boots.
He told Newstalk’s Off the Ball: "I’m actually…as of two weeks ago, I’m probably playing the best football I’ve played for five years.
"I’m looking forward to club championship at the weekend. See how that goes."
"We got over the line. We did the amazing five-in-a-row and all that. So there’s different challenges, different pressures. It’s going to be a more relaxed environment now.
"So I’m just going to have a chat with Jim. I’m not a hundred per cent sure. I have to chat to (wife) Keira.
"It’s just about making the right decision for myself, my work and everything else."
He added: "I’ll meet Jim and have an honest conversation with him. I don’t want to go in and say ‘this is what’s happening.’
"As I said when I got injured, let’s ‘war game’ it. Whatever the result will be, will be.
“We’ll have an open and frank conversation but I’m not going to go in with a decision made. Because Jim has been a big part of my career for a long time and we’ve won six All-Irelands together.
“I was actually part of his first (All-Ireland) U21 win in 2003, someone reminded me he was actually the manager of Dublin’s first U21 title and Alan was the captain. I was part of that as well so we go back a long way.”
Brogan admitted his disappointment though at being left out of Dublin's 26-man squad, that included late blow-in Diarmuid Connolly, for the drawn final.
But the 2010 Footballer of the Year "tried to look at it from both sides" when Gavin broke the news to him.
"Is there room for sentiment? Is there room for romance? I’m a romantic.
"Jim knows I am. But at the end of the day, when he rang me for the first Kerry game, I said 'you have to make the right calls for the team.'
"It’s not a personal thing."
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