International Rules 2013

thelad95

keeponhurling wrote: »

2 extremely one-sided games isn't the way to go

I dont actually think they would be that one-sided. As it is, the game is basically gaelic football with a mark and the occcasional 'legal' tackle thrown in. With rugby becoming more popular in Ireland, catching and kicking a rugby shaped ball wouldn't be that difficult to adapt to. The problem with the australians is that there are very few games which involve catching and kicking a round ball so they find it difficult to adapt. In fact I think it might be an idea to play every second quarter with the different balls. I never believed the game was only suited to a round ball.

keeponhurling

thelad95 wrote: »

I dont actually think they would be that one-sided. As it is, the game is basically gaelic football with a mark and the occcasional 'legal' tackle thrown in. With rugby becoming more popular in Ireland, catching and kicking a rugby shaped ball wouldn't be that difficult to adapt to. The problem with the australians is that there are very few games which involve catching and kicking a round ball so they find it difficult to adapt. In fact I think it might be an idea to play every second quarter with the different balls. I never believed the game was only suited to a round ball.

Respectfully disagree.

Do you really think that 15 athletes who had a couple of weeks to learn how to play football, could beat the best Ireland had to offer?

And vice versa. we would be destroyed in oval-ball Aussie rules.

Dots1982

keeponhurling wrote: »

Respectfully disagree.

Do you really think that 15 athletes who had a couple of weeks to learn how to play football, could beat the best Ireland had to offer?

And vice versa. we would be destroyed in oval-ball Aussie rules.

This is correct, We would be absolutely destroyed if we played with an oval ball. We wouldn't be able to bounce the thing for starters.

willabur

keeponhurling wrote: »

Respectfully disagree.

Do you really think that 15 athletes who had a couple of weeks to learn how to play football, could beat the best Ireland had to offer?

And vice versa. we would be destroyed in oval-ball Aussie rules.

Correct, to think that Ireland would get even close to the Australians at their own game is wishful thinking in the absolute extreme. Catching that ball is one thing but kicking it with accuracy is an extremely difficult skill, this is the reason that the selected the round ball in the first place as they felt the required leap to adapt to it from the australians is lesser than the same would be for the gaa lads to adapt to the sherrin.

I don't see the point in playing one half in GAA and one in AFL. It would just be two complete mismatches, see which team can hammer the other by the most points.

IMO the biggest problem with this series is the apathy of the australian players and public. The indigenous decision I feel was the death rattle of the idea for the time being. Unless they get the elite australian players out (thoe who have competed with the irish in the past) the public will not go to watch it, with no public there is no sponsorship dollars and without that it is completely dead

Dots1982

The main reason Ireland bet Oz so easily was that Ireland picked a really really good team, close to the best we could have. The Aussies picked a woeful side who didn’t care much about the game as this series has absolutely no traction in Oz, they treat this like we would if we sent an under-16 team to play Int rules in Australia. I don’t think a lot of posters are grasping that this sport has no importance at all in Oz and they will most likely pull the plug on it while the GAA would like to continue it. The only interest in Oz on this was that they expected their lads to be racially abused.

The whole “we should play with the Aussie ball” argument is a complete red herring.

Dublin Red Devil

I think for the series to live on,The Australians need to put out an All-Star team. We need to see their star names like Gary Ablett, Joel Selwood, Scott Pendlebury and Dane Swan

ThunbergsAreGo

But the Irish team isnt an All Star team?

Dublin Red Devil

naughtb4 wrote: »

But the Irish team isnt an All Star team?

9 players in our squad are nominated for GAA All Stars this year. Not including one of the best forwards in the country Michael Murphy and 4x All-Star Sean Cavanagh 2x All Stars Aidan Walsh and Ciaran Sheehan.

Dots1982

naughtb4 wrote: »

But the Irish team isnt an All Star team?

No, its better.