Joe Brolly was on FQfm today and he once again offered some opinions on Colm Cooper and his belief that 'The Gooch' can't stand up to adversity.
Colm is peerless in terms of his skills but I'm on record as saying that I don't believe he can lead a team in adversity and I've never seen him lead a team in adversity. There's a huge burden on his shoulders and he's not just that type of person.
He also said that while Cooper has played well at centre-forward, he's not capable of putting in the hard yards that someone playing that position must be able to do.
A centre-forward must do the hard yards and that's just not the type of footballer Colm is. He's looking for easy ball and it's going to be very, very difficult for him.
A year ago in the Derry Journal, Brolly wrote that if an American tourist had watched Cooper play against Crossmaglen in the All-Ireland club semi-final, he would not have believed that the Kerryman was one of the greats and would have had no problems accepting him being labelled as a "choker".
An American tourist would never have believed it if you’d told him The Gooch was one of the greats. If however you’d told him he was a choker, he would have agreed, since that is what Colm did against Cross. As their key man floundered, so did his team mates.
Brolly appeared on The Sunday Game soon after the publication of the article where he said that he had never called him a choker.
That must have been the American tourist, Joe.
[Irish Examiner]
