Galwey ponders playing future

MICK GALWEY will “take stock” before deciding whether or not to call time on his rugby playing days.

Galwey will be 37 next October and his intention for some time was to play out the season just ending and then hang up his boots. However, he is keen to remain within the Munster set-up, whether as a backroom adviser a role he carried out to outstanding effect during this year's campaign or perhaps even as a player.

Mick O'Driscoll's much regretted departure to Perpignan means that Munster will be short of second-row cover, especially during the Celtic League campaign when Paul O'Connell and Donnacha O'Callaghan will almost certainly be away on World Cup duty. Alternatives are not exactly thick on the ground and it could be that coach Alan Gaffney will be glad to have Galwey in reserve.