Paul Galvin Retires from Inter County Football

[Two Hands FFS]

On twitter now

[AZOffaly]

See that. What a force of nature he was in his prime. A great loss to Kerry, but he has been waning the last year or so. Kerry definitely in rebuild mode now. I think Declan O'S is staying on, but he'll not have too many years left himself.

[Syferus]

Sad to see him go - class, attitude and madness in descending order of importance. At the heart of one of the best county teams of all-time.

It's always hard to like Kerry players when they're still playing, but such is the station a county with that much success has to 'endure'. It's easy to do it in retrospect with Galvin. The GAA would be a better place if it had a few more players with Galvin's magnetism, on and off the field.

[armaghniac]

Will he be going out to stud?

[squire_in_navy_slacks]

he will be back for the summer

[muppet]

Seems like a rushed decision so it might be reversed, especially if Kerry do badly in the League. The thought of Cork in early summer might be too much for him to resist, although he will miss Noel O'Leary terribly.

If he has gone though, it has to be said that he was a key man on a great team. He dug Kerry out many times by repeatedly winning the dirty ball and quickly moving it to a well placed colleague. On his day no one did this job better than Galvin.

And he saved many a ref from wasps.

[Main Street]

He was also handy shot with a duster.
He's one teacher i would think twice about giving a smack to.

He could be a mad cnt at times but he was a class act with the ball in his hand, one of the outstanding players in recent times.

[SHEEDY]

one of my favourite players, brilliant player in his prime. hope he changes his mind and gives it one last lash for the summer.

[SuperHo]

he misses mugsy

[orangeman]

I think he'll be back as well for the Munster final.

[Aaron Boone]

It's 4 and 1/2 months to Kerry v Clare/Waterford. 2 weeks more to the seeded-draw Munster final v Cork.

Paul can take his time to reflect and return for the last hurrah.

[Syferus]

Don't see why Galvin deciding to retire has elicited such a disproportionate number of dis-believers here. He's 34, 16 years of IC football at all grades on the clock, probably likely to have only been a super sub this season. I wouldn't be at all confident in him ever playing again unless there is a huge injury crisis.

[AZOffaly]

Kerry do have a recent history of getting a second coming out of retired players, like Mike McCarthy and Eoin Brosnan, and I know fitzmaurice was looking at Galvin in a 6 shirt which would have been interesting. Must not have been working out too well.

[Shamrock Shore]

Great player.

Someone once told me that every good football team has to have a 'sch-kut' on it to be successful. Galvin was such a player.

Can see us all becoming metrosexual and wearing his fashion range in years to come.

[rodney trotter]

He played centre back last week against Crokes in a challenge for Kerry and  wasn't happy with how it went, word on twittter. Also couldn't give the full commitment as he  is now based in Dublin