There’s no room for sulkers in battle for Dr Crokes jersey, says O’Callaghan

Colm Cooper continues to be one of the first players to arrive at Lewis Road for a Crokes training session. Half-an-hour before Pat O’Shea gathers his charges for a warm-up, Cooper and Tony Brosnan are out on the field kicking points. However deep his frustrations at being dropped from the starting team, the 35-year-old has kept his feelings under wraps. As ever, he’s allowing his football do the talking.

Crokes selector, Niall O’Callaghan, says it was “an incredibly tough decision” not to restore Cooper to the starting team for their Kerry quarter-final against Legion, on the last weekend of September. With Cooper having been absent for their third-round victory over An Ghaeltacht, because of a bug, Tony Brosnan filled in and finished with 1-13 beside his name.