Hello all...just thought I'd have my few pence on the IRS.
I moved back from Oz 6 months ago(i was on a gap year(s) there) was rooming with a mad Western Bulldogs fan and a rugger bugger. I went to the last series down there with my bulldogs mate. He said that interest down there is lessening in the IRS because half of AFL is the physical knocks that go on. Some fans boo when there are no fights in a game!
He seemed to think that the reason the Aussies started fights left right and centre up here was not because they are thugs but because the skill of the Irish team was too great to take them on in a footy match. They see the GAA as lilly livered freckled scrawney red haired paddies who cant take the knocks. Often in a series the 1st test is clean and Ireland take a lead, but in the second test to prevent Ireland getting a flow the Aussies try to scare them off with a few knocks!
He told me the other week that Mick Malthouse was put in because the AFL feared the overseas impression the team was giving and so they wanted it toned down and cleaner. Problem is that the Aussies now cannot compete as Ireland will run rings round them with their on the ball skills. Aussies are losing interest because of this.
This series I see as Ireland winning by a few, because the Aussies cannot compete with fair play if ireland move the ball!
I moved back from Oz 6 months ago(i was on a gap year(s) there) was rooming with a mad Western Bulldogs fan and a rugger bugger. I went to the last series down there with my bulldogs mate. He said that interest down there is lessening in the IRS because half of AFL is the physical knocks that go on. Some fans boo when there are no fights in a game!
He seemed to think that the reason the Aussies started fights left right and centre up here was not because they are thugs but because the skill of the Irish team was too great to take them on in a footy match. They see the GAA as lilly livered freckled scrawney red haired paddies who cant take the knocks. Often in a series the 1st test is clean and Ireland take a lead, but in the second test to prevent Ireland getting a flow the Aussies try to scare them off with a few knocks!
He told me the other week that Mick Malthouse was put in because the AFL feared the overseas impression the team was giving and so they wanted it toned down and cleaner. Problem is that the Aussies now cannot compete as Ireland will run rings round them with their on the ball skills. Aussies are losing interest because of this.
This series I see as Ireland winning by a few, because the Aussies cannot compete with fair play if ireland move the ball!