While the Dublin footballers have played Leinster Championship games away from Croke Park in recent seasons, Saturday's trip to face Kildare at UPMC Nowlan Park will be the first time they've played a Sam Maguire match out of the Jones Road venue since August 2019.
It's now an annual discussion about whether the Dubs are playing at GAA HQ too often - including home games in the Allianz League - and how much playing at the stadium, which will always host the All-Ireland final, and semi-finals, is worth to the team.
Critics argue that it's plainly true that familiarity with a venue is an advantage across elite sports and that therefore, by playing there more often than other counties, it's obvious that Dublin have an advantage over other sides.
Defenders of the Dubs argue that other counties play in Croke Park regularly and that there weren't many arguing that it was an advantage to the Metropolitans between 1996 and 2010, when they failed to win a single All-Ireland.
Similarly, it has yet to manifest itself for the county's hurlers, who couldn't hold on to a 12-point advantage over Galway there last Sunday.
Speaking on the RTÉ GAA Podcast, former Tyrone footballer Enda McGinley suggested that sometimes familiarity with a venue can be a disadvantage for a team, citing teams regularly coming to play in Clones in the Ulster SFC.
"For the likes of Tyrone, and the likes of myself, given the choice, even if it was Monaghan you were playing, you'd far rather play them in Clones than Healy Park," he began.
"We're all so used to Clones, playing there is like a home venue. I always thought it was a real disadvantage for Monaghan because everyone gets to play there.
"Clones is any Ulster team's home ground, or it certainly feels like that."
The logic then follows that Croke Park should feel as familiar to the Mayos, Kerrys and Kildares of this world, owing to how regularly they have played there this century, even when Dublin weren't the opposition.
Not so, according to Lilywhites manager Glenn Ryan, who complained that, "you don't get a fair crack of the whip" after his side's narrow defeat to Dublin in the Leinster Championship last month at Croke Park. He found an unlikely supporter in former Dublin midfielder, and current RTÉ GAA analyst, Ciarán Whelan.
Kildare beat Dublin in the league last year at their home ground at Newbridge, but with it currently a building site due to ongoing renovation works, their "home" game in the All-Ireland group stage has been moved to the Marble City.
The argument that Croke Park's capacity was reason enough to play games there is less convincing in the current climate. The days of 50,000 people showing up to games involving the big Leinster counties are over, and, at the time of writing, there are still plenty of tickets left for the match in Kilkenny in a ground that has a capacity of 27,000.
One of Kildare's best days of late was when they brought Mayo to Newbridge in 2018, in the wake of the "Newbridge or nowhere" campaign, and beat them.
While they haven't managed to get the game against their city neighbours to be truly home, can they give Dublin a better test at a neutral venue? Éamonn Fitzmaurice, 2014 All-Ireland winning manager with Kerry, isn't convinced.
"We're waiting all year for them [Dublin] to really get going," he says.
"I wonder will that bit of a slight, the Glenn Ryan comments after the game, stoke the flames a bit for them this week? Kildare haven't beaten Dublin in championship since 2000.
"It's a long time, and in general to bridge those huge gaps it takes a long time. Kildare have the talent and the players to cause a shock but whether, when it comes to 65 minutes plus, that they'll have the belief and know how, and they won't tighten up down the stretch, to finish off the job, I'm not convinced.
"Dublin were quite passive last weekend against Roscommon. They didn't really come out and go after the game so you'd expect a bit of a change in mindset this week.
"Sometimes the going away from Croke Park can give them a bit of life, and a bit of energy; just a bit of freshness, something different.
"Nowlan Park is gorgeous pitch, lovely stadium to play in, so I think that could bring the best of the Dubs this weekend."
So, after all that, could taking Dublin out of Croke Park backfire on Kildare? We'll have our answer before 7pm on Saturday evening.
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