Ireland v Australia, Rules Test 1, Breffni Park, Saturday 19 October 2013

[muppet]

Zach Touhy would make some difference to Laois, he's been brilliant.

Agreed.

Flynn is a quality footballer too.

Murphy & O'Shea did well.

O'Rourke is a good keeper in this game.

[Wildweasel74]

Only seen the 4th quarter and it was good, but as you would say, the pace would need to be this for the 4 quarters for it to be interesting from a viewing capacity

[squire_in_navy_slacks]

Zach Touhy would make some difference to Laois, he's been brilliant.

Agreed.

Flynn is a quality footballer too.

Murphy & O'Shea did well.

O'Rourke is a good keeper in this game.

Indeed and he was playing for his club aswell this morning

[Wildweasel74]

Only Paul Galvin could pull of that shirt,

Fashion Icon!

[ballinaman]

Quite enjoyed that to my shock.

Flynn is some footballer. Picks the right option every single time.

[Count 10]

Absolute shite!

[Zulu]

Zach Touhy would make some difference to Laois, he's been brilliant.

Agreed.

Flynn is a quality footballer too.

Murphy & O'Shea did well.

O'Rourke is a good keeper in this game.

Thought Murphy faded a bit but with the rolling subs it was a hard to figure out if a man was on the field or not! Munnelly did well early on too and I thought Sheehan and Walsh did pretty well too. Touhy and Flynn were the stand out performers for Ireland alright. Flynn is a classy performer and the prototype modern footballer. Caffrey did well too and he left the Aussies in his wake a number of times which is no mean feat.

[sam03/05]

What a load of shit of a game!
Michael Murphy chose to play in that nonsense on the eve of a county final!

Fk me!!

[lawnseed]

Ireland are gonna get hammered.. far too many mayo losers on the panel

Asshole.

Anyway, I found this on hoganstand... If it's up here before good and well...

The club v. country row rumbles on as Mayo club Breaffy are the latest outfit to seek a postponement of the County SFC final.

Breaffy have Aidan O'Shea involved with the Ireland squad ahead of the International Rules test and with the second test on Saturday, October 26, just 24hrs before the county final against Castlebar Mitchels.

However, despite the club's pleas, the county final looks set to go ahead on Sunday, October 27th, but Mayo CCC chairman Mike Connelly stated that unless the Connacht club SFC was put back, then there was nothing they could do.

"We have to allow for the draw," Connelly told the Mayo News. "If Croke Park and Connacht Council decide to put the Connacht Championship back by a week, we can move the county final, but at the minute, we can't move it."

oh wait.. this isn't the final yet lets wait until the final and then get hammered mayo stylie

Bring in all the Armagh players then. They're in the know about winning All-Irelands.

is the next game in croke park? is there silverware? and the bookies have Ireland at evens? think about it..

[Zulu]

What a load of shit of a game!
Michael Murphy chose to play in that nonsense on the eve of a county final!

Fk me!!

These boys are selected because they are among the best footballers in Ireland and have a chance to be acknowledged as such and you can't understand why they might want to play?

Murphy plays for Donegal, if he can do what he is asked to do in that system then the IC must be a dream.

[sam03/05]

Nonsense of a game, complete and utter shite to watch.
Most of Ireland's best players not playing - Cooper, Brogan etc. Australia not interested as their best players are at home.

If I was involved with Murphys club I would be rightly pissed off.

[Sandy Hill]

Nonsense of a game, complete and utter shite to watch.
Most of Ireland's best players not playing - Cooper, Brogan etc. Australia not interested as their best players are at home.

If I was involved with Murphys club I would be rightly pissed off.

+1

Did Ciaran ppMcKeever play?

[Zulu]

Just as well you're not so. By the way, neither Brogan or Cooper are out by choice as far as I know and while it is true the Aussies haven't sent their best that doesn't diminish the value to the Irish players.

I wouldn't watch that every week but you'd get fair sick of the pissers and moaners who seem to have little else to do but complain about something that is harmless enough and a nice bonus for our top players.

[BennyHarp]

It's not the most exciting spectacle and having sky plussed it I watched a fair bit on fast forward. When players are decent foot passers, then the mark makes the game appear very easy. Just a series of 30 yard passes when nobody can lay a hand on you.

[rodney trotter]

It was obviously going to be slow to start off, both teams aren't use e to each other. Aussies took a while getting into kicking with the round ball but they soon settled and played good football as what happened in Galway in 2010, then won that test, and then in the second test they were excellent in Croke Park.

  , Btw Brogan was injured and couldn't play, he has played pevious in tests, wasn't  because he didn't want to play.