Ireland V Austrailia International Rules Official Thread 2008

[Doire abú]

You're not a boxer though. He'd be destroyed by any half decent international heavyweight. Even with boxing at it's lowest ebb this just smacks of a publicity stunt. So he won an amateur boxing title when he was a young fella. Big deal. He could become Australian champion and it would still mean nothing. And if you think otherwise I'd like you to name the current Australian heavyweight champion.

Everyone knows its John Hopoate. Wait for the best bit....




he's a former rugby league player.

[stephenite]

John Hopoate - suspended for consistently trying to insert a digit up opponents holes in the tackle whilst playing rugby league, he didn't try this just the once

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=S8KtKh32d9g

[HeaveHo]

You're not a boxer though. He'd be destroyed by any half decent international heavyweight. Even with boxing at it's lowest ebb this just smacks of a publicity stunt. So he won an amateur boxing title when he was a young fella. Big deal. He could become Australian champion and it would still mean nothing. And if you think otherwise I'd like you to name the current Australian heavyweight champion.

Anthony Mundine switched from rugby league to boxing successfully. Fought Mikael Kessler twice for the title - lost on points both times but well above average.

[thejuice]

John Hopoate - suspended for consistently trying to insert a digit up opponents holes in the tackle whilst playing rugby league, he didn't try this just the once

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=S8KtKh32d9g

no surprises he boxing now, he seems naturally drawn to the ring

[Jinxy]

That's quality juice. 

[Maguire01]

Hadn't been following this thread...

Freeman never played

i think you'll find he played in the '03 series in australia.

If he did it was the stupidest decision ever by a rules manager

Why so?

Just had a read at the Irish News monthly sport magazine and Tommy did indeed play in 2003 and scored 2 points.

[stiffler]

Does anyone know is there gonna be delayed coverage of this game shown sometime this weekend, so that all of us who have to work Fridays get to see the game?

[JMohan]

Hadn't been following this thread...

Freeman never played

i think you'll find he played in the '03 series in australia.

If he did it was the stupidest decision ever by a rules manager

Why so?

Just had a read at the Irish News monthly sport magazine and Tommy did indeed play in 2003 and scored 2 points.

In my opinion he is not a Compromise Rules player ...
He's not physically strong enough for the Rules game
He hasn't the mentality to withstand the constant pyschological and physical taunting
He's too small to compete for his own ball

[JMohan]

John Hopoate - suspended for consistently trying to insert a digit up opponents holes in the tackle whilst playing rugby league, he didn't try this just the once
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=S8KtKh32d9g

It went on for a while before they decided to do anything about him too ... very pyschologically damaging

[Doire abú]

Read somewhere that Friday's game starts at 11.20am Irish time, I thought it was supposed to be 9.30am??

[Muzz]

Read somewhere that Friday's game starts at 11.20am Irish time, I thought it was supposed to be 9.30am??

First test coverage starts at 11:10am on RTE1.  Second test coverage starts at 8:30am on RTE2. 

[Red Hurley]

Bernard Brogan is the latest to pull out. Marty McGrath has been called in to replace him.
Some of the papers mentioned Ronan Clarke hasn't attended training sessions since being named on the stand-by list, is this due to Pearse Og commtiments or  what? Hard to believe he's being continually overlooked, he doesn't appear to be the type to throw the head up, maybe he's just decided to focus on the Armagh final.

It's a disgrace that Ronan Clarke wasn't picked, he would have went if picked, stand by my arse!

[bridgegael]

Hadn't been following this thread...

Freeman never played

i think you'll find he played in the '03 series in australia.

If he did it was the stupidest decision ever by a rules manager

Why so?

Just had a read at the Irish News monthly sport magazine and Tommy did indeed play in 2003 and scored 2 points.

In my opinion he is not a Compromise Rules player ...
He's not physically strong enough for the Rules game
He hasn't the mentality to withstand the constant pyschological and physical taunting
He's too small to compete for his own ball

och  would ya quit.  from memory tommy did very well in the series,  why would you say he hasn't the mentality to deal with  the rough stuff??  have you anything to back that up??

[Jinxy]

This is the way I see it going. If ticket sales for the 2nd game are reasonable then there won't be much trouble in the 1st game. If ticket sales are poor I GUARANTEE there will be a serious mill-up to generate a bit of interest for the 2nd test. Either that or some PR stunt will create tension between the two camps in the run-up to the 2nd game  (i.e. one of the Aussies saying someone is going to get it on the Irish team, like they did with Geraghty last time).

[bridgegael]

i see the gaelic life are doing daily footage from the team down under on their website.  worth checking out.