MAYO STAR OISÍN Mullin is set to join AFL outfit Geelong Cats.
The42 understands last season’s Young Footballer of the Year has agreed a deal as a category B rookie with the 2021 preliminary finalists. Their preseason is scheduled to kick off at the end of November.
The Kilmaine club man has been linked with a move Down Under for two years now. In 2019, he attended a combine in DCU and was subsequently part of who were invited to Melbourne for further trials and club visits. Frank Irwin, Ultan Kelm and Cillian Rouine were also due to travel, but the trip was cancelled due to Covid.
Fremantle Dockers did announce they were committed to signing Fermanagh native Kelm last week.
As reported by The42, he will now delay his move until 2022 due to a hip injury.
The move comes as a big blow to Mayo. Mullin was recently nominated for Young Footballer of the Year and an All-Star. The defender missed their All-Ireland semi-final victory over Dublin due to a quad injury but recovered to start in the final.
He is currently in action in the Mayo intermediate senior championship.
Geelong already have two Irish players on their list, Zach Tuohy and Mark O’Connor. Stefan Okunbor spent the last three years at the club but has returned to Ireland. In the AFLW, they also recently signed Mayo’s Rachel Kearns.
The signing means 14 Irish players are now contracted to play AFL for 2022.
Got em all right, im off to celebrate by getting a life
Taibi and I got 5/10 , I thought that might give me Paul Jones or ed de goy .. someone middle of the road , not that clown anyway… To sum up , a tad harsh ..
I am Peter schmeicel
Fabian Bartez, “good but not the best” , haha, pretty accurate there!
9/10. Agonised for ages over the Selhurst park question and then chose the wrong one.
That question was one of the only ones I got right lol. Milwall would never share a ground with Palace, would be like a south east WWIII.
Wouldn’t matter who Milwall were sharing a ground with….they’d start a war with anyone…
Tbf to the actual club, they’ve tried to stamp the rough element out of the game. They also do massive work for charities and advocacy to keep vital services at Lewisham Hospital. Having been to the New Den, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought, I guess it isn’t fair to tarnish the whole club with one brush. But they hate Palace, lol.
I stood in the away section at the old den in New Cross once, it was a cage thankfully cause we were battered with bricks and bottles for the entire game. Scary stuff.
Jaysus. 10/10. But if the quiz was the other way around – e.g. ‘where do the club who used to play at Ayresome Park now play?’ – then I’d be struggling to get two or three. Must really be showing my age.
6/10 with 3 of them guesses
100% I watch/have watched way to much football :L