It infers both buying and selling
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Crikey. Read my posts again.
Deary me
Deary you indeed.
Not like the Connacht boys to look for handouts
Worked out alright for the Comers though…
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Growing doubts around Peter Cooke’s Galway availability
The Moycullen man returned to the county set-up this past season on the back of Galway and Connacht senior championship wins with his club.
DOUBTS: Peter Cooke of Galway in action against Conor Loftus of Mayo. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
FRI, 15 DEC, 2023 - 11:14
JOHN FOGARTY
There are growing doubts Peter Cooke will not be available for Galway’s senior footballers in 2024.
The Moycullen man returned to the county set-up this past season on the back of Galway and Connacht senior championship wins with his club.
The 27-year-old featured in all of Galway’s 2021 league and championship games but work commitments ruled him out last year.
Cooke’s employers are cyber security firm TitanHQ and he has spent time based out of their Connecticut offices.
The midfielder-cum-half-forward began all six of Galway’s championship games this past season, scoring 10 points across their three Sam Maguire Cup round-robin games.
As he pondered a return to Pádraic Joyce’s panel earlier this year, Cooke said: "I’m only 26 so I definitely wouldn’t be hanging up the boots any time soon. There’s a lot of moving parts to the equation that I probably need to sit down and address in terms of work and living wise and different bits and pieces.
“Listen, when you’re in there I suppose you’ve got to enjoy the day-to-day of it as well and embrace all of that. You have to invest the time whether it’s six, nine, 12 months, it can be longer than that at times to build to something big.
"So, I’m conscious that if you’re in there you have to be all in. It’s kind of different to club level on that side of things.”
Pádraic Joyce is not expected to confirm his panel for the Allianz League until the second half of January but defender Liam Silke is expected to be on board after working in New Zealand last season.
That would not be good news.
He’s not able to commit for 2024 as of this week anyways.
Same favour…
Could anyone confirm for me that Gavin Lee (Clarinbridge) was born in 2004?
Don’t know his exact DOB but he’s in 2nd year engineering in college anyway.
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I doubt he was, I’d say 2003. He wasn’t in the Galway squad that made the minor final in 2021, and he was captain of his club when they won the u20 this year.
Was GL not MOTM in 2021 Minor AIF?
Cheers.
There were two finals played in 2021, the Covid delayed 2020 final and the 2021 minor final. ‘Twas the former Lee played in, Cork hammered Galway in the latter.
Thanks very much.
The perils of a rapid image search (and imprecise Sportsfile caption).
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Silke returns to Galway fold
Thursday 4 January 2024
By John Harrington
Galway senior football team captain, Sean Kelly, has confirmed the Tribesmen have been strengthened by the return to the panel of Liam Silke.
The 2022 All-Star missed last year’s campaign after travelling to New Zealand, but is now back in the fold.
That’s great news for a Galway defence that will also be strengthened by the return to fitness of Ciaran Molloy who missed the 2023 season with a knee injury.
“Yeah, Liam and Ciaran will be back and then there’s Sean Mulkerrin as well,” says Kelly.
“Liam had gone travelling and Ciaran had an ACL injury and Sean Mulkerrin had a bad knee injury as well but they’re all back training now and, in fairness to them, putting in a lot of work.
“It’s great to have them and it’s a real boost for us. It takes a while to get going again but it’s a big boost because they’re putting in a tough pre-season and have a real hunger for it so that drives us on too.”
The availability of Kelly’s Maigh Cuilinn club-mate, Peter Cooke, to Galway in 2024 is less certain.
Cooke returned to the panel last year after missing the 2022 season due to work commitments, and has yet to confirm if he’ll play for Galway this year.
“I think management were chatting to him,” says Kelly of Silke. “He was gone away working in New York for the last while so I’m not fully sure exactly what has happened.
“I’ll have to meet him soon enough because I didn’t get a chance to see him over Christmas. Hopefully he’s around, but, to be honest, I’m not entirely sure right now.
“I’ll try to meet him now in the next couple of days and I’ll hopefully see then what his plan is. He’s a kind of a free bird, he does his own thing. It would be great to have him involved, but who knows right now.”
As for Kelly himself, he’s not sure quite when he’ll be back on a pitch but it doesn’t look like he’ll feature in the early rounds of the Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup for University of Galway.
He’s still rehabbing two injuries. The ankle injury he sustained playing against Armagh in the All-Ireland SFC last year, and a hamstring tear he suffered in club training before the Galway SFC Final.
“It’s one of those at the moment where I have to play it by ear because I have two injuries that I’m still trying to get right,” says Kelly.
“Hopefully there will be no set-backs in finishing the rehab process. I’ve been going alright and it’s getting a lot better.
“I haven’t been back running yet but hopefully that comes next week or the week after, I’m not entirely sure, but hopefully I can get back on the pitch soon as long as my tests go well.
“I’ve done enough work in rehab and I kind of want to be back out on the pitch so we’ll see.”
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Not a good sign that he’s still dealing with both injuries
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This is what happens when you give a load of Connies hurls.
Oh the shame