Dessie Farrell hasn't announced Stephen Cluxton's retirement and he won't do that, he'll leave that to the man himself.
But Clucko being Clucko, he won't announce anything. That's just the way he is.
He didn't play in this year's National League and didn't rejoin the panel after it. But listen, it's unlikely he'll be coming back.
He is back with his club but it's not a case getting his eye in as he's playing outfield.
In typical Stephen Cluxton fashion, he will look to melt into the shadows. But now it's time to pay our respects to the greatest goalkeeper to have ever played the game.
Tommy Carr handed him his Dublin debut in 2001 and there's a long list of goalkeepers who were in his shadow over the past 20 years.
His list of achievements is absolutely incredible - eight All-Irelands, seven as captain, 16 Leinster titles, six AllStars (lots of us feel he should have got more), topped off with a well-overdue footballer of the year award.
The greatest Clucko memory for any Dublin fan is him kicking the winning score in the 2011 All-Ireland final.
He changed goalkeeping forever because all of a sudden every keeper had to get better on his kick-outs and on various other elements of his game, such as tactical awareness.
His ability to score from long range was of real value when that was an issue for Dublin. He had a very good record with his free-taking - capped by that winning score against Kerry a decade ago.
He worked really hard at his craft. They say goalkeepers are half mad, well he certainly lived up to that - he's such a serious, intense guy about his trade, but such was his personality in the dressing-room that when he spoke, everyone listened.
He demanded such high standards from the group and that was the beauty of him, too, and Dublin will miss that now.
Certainly, there were worrying signs yesterday from a Dublin perspective in that Leinster quarter-final victory against Wexford.
Yes, they were missing Eoin Murchan, John Small and Jonny Cooper from their defence so Brian Howard and James McCarthy had to fill in there, but Dublin surprisingly looked out of sync.
There's an awful lot of new faces there now and Wexford played very well for long periods - their intensity was fantastic but they played some lovely ball as well and certainly didn't look like a Division 4 side.
It was like an old-fashioned contest with caution thrown to the wind and Wexford had a real cut.
You'd worry a bit now in terms of the next generation. Dublin fans have lived through halcyon days but Dessie Farrell has a really big challenge on his hands.
