International Rules 2010/2011

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Funny that of the teams thrown up no one included Tommy Walsh. Sure we must have nearly a full 15 of lads who are/were in the AFL, however briefly.

I noticed too that a selection from North Dublin schools beat an Aussie school team playing one half as international rules and the second with the oval ball. They won both halves as well. Would it be too much to ask of our seniors to try the same??

id love to see ireland try the oval ball, alot of guys have played rugby and would be familiar with it

Ireland would be completely destroyed, i would be surprised if they even scored with the oval ball.

Not even a point? Jaysus...

Didn't stop us scoring back in the 1980's

[stevecw]

I'd imagine Brendan Murphy might have a good chance of getting on this. After being over there for 2 years with Sydney Swans, since he came back playing great stuff for Carlow he should be considered.

Also Thomas Walsh who has been with Wicklow for past 3 years, but as of next week is going to be a Carlow player again finally...he is the type of player who would suit this too.

[magickingdom]

Funny that of the teams thrown up no one included Tommy Walsh. Sure we must have nearly a full 15 of lads who are/were in the AFL, however briefly.

I noticed too that a selection from North Dublin schools beat an Aussie school team playing one half as international rules and the second with the oval ball. They won both halves as well. Would it be too much to ask of our seniors to try the same??

id love to see ireland try the oval ball, alot of guys have played rugby and would be familiar with it

Ireland would be completely destroyed, i would be surprised if they even scored with the oval ball.

are you surprised a lot?

[lawnseed]

this game is supposed to be Aussie rules v gaa. tommy Walsh, kinelly and the rest of the Irish lads are Australian rules professionals and i think that should rule them out. whats the point of it if its going to turn into a game of Aussie rules players against each other. there an Aussie guy who's a contributer on talksport cant stand it when the English fella throws it up to him about the Irish farmers/footballers beating the cream of Aussie athletes. funny thing is the English lad has never saw the game played hasn't a clue what hes talking about but it drives the Aussie nuts

[Celt_Man]

this game is supposed to be Aussie rules v gaa. tommy Walsh, kinelly and the rest of the Irish lads are Australian rules professionals and i think that should rule them out. whats the point of it if its going to turn into a game of Aussie rules players against each other. there an Aussie guy who's a contributer on talksport cant stand it when the English fella throws it up to him about the Irish farmers/footballers beating the cream of Aussie athletes. funny thing is the English lad has never saw the game played hasn't a clue what hes talking about but it drives the Aussie nuts

No it's not, it's Ireland v Australia in a game of Compromise Rules - big difference

[lawnseed]

I'm bald Celt man so Ive no hairs to split with you, the main attraction of the game if you read my post certainly to the outsider is that its that its a pro-am series, neither sport is a recognised international game. apart from this makey uppy game neither code has the chance to play internationally. (unless your the dup minister for sport) once a player starts playing Aussie rules they are paid professionals and part of that set up, if we take it to your logical conclusion we'd be drafting in rugby lads and soccer fellas just because they're Irish and could help us to win. I'd prefer it if the players representing the gaa and ireland were actually our players and not mercenaries PAID to come here and play. we only look for lads from england to play soccer because we don't have fellas here good enough. we certainly don't have a problem gathering up a team of gaa players

[GAA_Punter]

Details of this years International rules series have been announced with The Irish Daily Mail becoming the new sponsors after Coca-Cola Bottlers Ireland confirmed to the GAA that they are not continuing as sponsor for the International Rules Series in Ireland.

Also RTE will only have highlights and Radio coverage after TG4 have been confirmed as this years broadcasters.

More to follow
http://www.sportsnewsireland.com/2010/06/01/rte-lose-coverage-rites-of-international-rules-series-23rd-october-30th-october-2010/

[The Worker]

Details of this years International rules series have been announced with The Irish Daily Mail becoming the new sponsors after Coca-Cola Bottlers Ireland confirmed to the GAA that they are not continuing as sponsor for the International Rules Series in Ireland.

Also RTE will only have highlights and Radio coverage after TG4 have been confirmed as this years broadcasters.

More to follow
http://www.sportsnewsireland.com/2010/06/01/rte-lose-coverage-rites-of-international-rules-series-23rd-october-30th-october-2010/

good work. thought it would have been tough to find a sponser in this era

[magickingdom]

i cant believe the gaa have given the rights to tg4, the thing needs all the promotion it gets.

[Aaron Boone]

Wouldn't getting the fans in through the gate willl be the promotion goal?
After that, then if it's TG4 then no probs. RTE will have late night highlights I'm sure.

[HeaveHo]

I wonder if the Aussies will call up Israel Falou for the IR series. Folau, a current Brisbane Broncos, Queensland and Australian rugby league player, has reported been signed by the AFL to play for the West Sydney AFL expansion side due to join the AFL competition. Folau is reportedly getting paid $AUD 4-6 million for a four year deal which is more than most, if not all, current AFL players make. Folau has never played the game but is seen as marketing tool to recruit the large Polynesian population based in Western Sydney to AFL.   

[ballinaman]

I wonder if the Aussies will call up Israel Falou for the IR series. Folau, a current Brisbane Broncos, Queensland and Australian rugby league player, has reported been signed by the AFL to play for the West Sydney AFL expansion side due to join the AFL competition. Folau is reportedly getting paid $AUD 4-6 million for a four year deal which is more than most, if not all, current AFL players make. Folau has never played the game but is seen as marketing tool to recruit the large Polynesian population based in Western Sydney to AFL.

No he won't be playing, West Sydney aren't due to enter the AFL until 2012. I think he's due to finish out the rest of the season with the Broncos...

[Never beat the deeler]

I wonder if the Aussies will call up Israel Falou for the IR series. Folau, a current Brisbane Broncos, Queensland and Australian rugby league player, has reported been signed by the AFL to play for the West Sydney AFL expansion side due to join the AFL competition. Folau is reportedly getting paid $AUD 4-6 million for a four year deal which is more than most, if not all, current AFL players make. Folau has never played the game but is seen as marketing tool to recruit the large Polynesian population based in Western Sydney to AFL.

Thats the key. He's still a NRL player so wont be involved.

(Just saw your post ballinaman, dammit!)

[DUBSFORSAM1]

Very interesting article with Tohill where he said the biggest risk of us losing is that we can't kick the ball properly anymore...

[Zulu]

I'm not sure that is a fair criticism of our players, I don't see any major deterioration in our kicking abilities from years gone by. IMO we were never all that well able to kick the ball accurately and more importantly we rarely work on timing the kick and the run from the forward or on what areas we should be kicking to.