2014 International Rules

Mr.Crinklewood

Duffy would have gave a goal there

CurryFlavoured

Cavanagh you chancer!

iDave

Whats cavanagh at ffs

Hidalgo

Clean hands by Dustin Fletcher to stop Ireland bundling the ball over the line

CurryFlavoured

Well done to the lads for making it competitive, the bad start killed us though. Better side won.

seanhynes

****ing aussie ***** had -10 how the hell have they blown a 34 point lead ugh dirty *****:mad:

DDC1990

Great excitement in the end.

Fully deserved win for the Aussies.

Got a bit physical towards the end, but it never got out of hand.

Jarred McVeigh my MOTM, but McManus was super in the second half.

Kevin McLoughlin was brilliant for Ireland as well.

KevIRL

Best outcome for the future of the series anyway, Aussie win but not a complete hammering

iDave

Lost by 10 were down by 30. Least they made a fight of it.
More All Stars next year please.

Daroxtar

"A Graiite Gaiime and a Graiite Spickticle"..... No, We were desperate apart from about 15 minutes.

zetecescort

How can our ball skills and decision making be so poor when there are God knows how many "skills coaches" around these days?

CurryFlavoured

It'd be nice to see Ireland's best 15 vs Aus best 15 but that'd be difficult with club football. Connolly, Donaghy, COC are a few guys that would've improved us. I don't know how strong Aus team is but it definitely looks like they took it more seriously this year.

Kerrydude1981

Did the Aussies practice the team picture as well

keane2097

corny wrote: »

Physicality has very little to do with this imo. I'd say fitness has a part to play alright but the Aussies are tearing us apart not with lung busting runs or crashing through tackles. They're playing around us.

For Ireland? Well i've seen compromise rules games where they were under far more pressure physically from the Aussies and still produced a performance. As one poster has said, their performance reeks of poor mindset or poor preparation. Thats the difference for me.

Physicality had everything to do with why they were better on the ball than us. They were able to put way more pressure on us than we were on them

Cheese Wagstaff

I think the whole idea of needing to be physical is over played a bit. It's clear that the game has evolved again, in that the key is being able to avoid contact.

What really killed us at the start was our natural inclination to take the ball into contact. A fast Sonny Bill type offload isn't really a major part of the Gaelic Football skillset, which was causing us a lot of problems at the start, compared to the Aussies who were more adept at being elusive and if they did get tackled (which didn't happen a lot in the first half anyway), they had the support man immediately coming off the shoulder at pace to take the quick pass.

No doubt lads like Connolly and Cillian O'Connor would improve us. However, the idea that smaller, faster players wouldn't be able for it due to physicality (the likes of James O'Donoghue, Mark McHugh, Jamie Clarke) isn't something that I would buy into.

When the game was competitive, it was highly entertaining. I'd really like to see it being kept.

keane2097

The Australian hand passing in tight spaces was very impressive at times actually

shrewdness

Cheese Wagstaff wrote: »

I think the whole idea of needing to be physical is over played a bit. It's clear that the game has evolved again, in that the key is being able to avoid contact.

What really killed us at the start was our natural inclination to take the ball into contact. A fast Sonny Bill type offload isn't really a major part of the Gaelic Football skillset, which was causing us a lot of problems at the start, compared to the Aussies who were more adept at being elusive and if they did get tackled (which didn't happen a lot in the first half anyway), they had the man coming off the shoulder at pace to take the quick pass.

No doubt lads like Connolly and Cillian O'Connor would improve us. However, the idea that smaller lads wouldn't be able for it due to physicality (the likes of James O'Donoghue, Mark McHugh, Jamie Clarke) isn't something that I would buy into.

Spot on. McManus wouldn't be a physical player but he was excellent this year and last.

castletownman

I enjoyed it. Australia perfected the art of the kick pass into space, although Ireland's tactic of quick movement and inter-play unlocked them massively in the second half. Had too much ground to make up at this stage though, and had AOS shown more intelligence in both of the goal chances in the second quarter, the result may have been different. Thought Hanley and Begley were poor considering their backgrounds in the game (particularly Pearse) and I'd say the Cork management may be annoyed at O'Neill's inclusion given his three cruciate injuries and that it's probably his first rehab-free off-season in a while.

I tell ya what though, I don't know about anyone else, but the "cleaning-up" of the series has taken from the overall enjoyment of it. Nothing like an amateur going toe-to-toe with a professional in a schmozzle to sate the national pride

CurryFlavoured

Well said Cheese. Even our biggest runners like AOS and Walsh were getting smothered in tackles. The key really is support play, well timed runs and clever, short passing. Taking on a man can be done but far less than in GAA where you take on your man pretty much every time you're 1 v 1, there needs to be sufficient space here. The Aussies are far more accustomed to quick offloads because they know not to run the ball unless you're running into space.

homerjay2005

Great second half from Ireland, 24 point turn around. Really great battling.

Had 7 attacks in last 5 mins- 4 wides, goal chance missed and only 1 over + 1 behind.

Ultimately despite a horrific first half, the chance to win the game was in those few mins, all 6 misses were very scoreable chances.

Overall good game and well done Ireland.

statto25

keane2097 wrote: »

The Australian hand passing in tight spaces was very impressive at times actually

Not only their hand passing but their ability to get out of trouble when a simple flick of a hand to pass to a teammate was excellent. Their awareness was excellent in those situations.

Borders no.2

Atrocious as the first quarter was Ireland still should have at least brought that down to the wire. Unfortunately the likes of Michael Murphy and Aidan O'Shea aren't suited to that game. Some atrocious kicking by some of the Irish players. Entertaining enough in general. Its a long way to go for one game but at least this morning should keep the game alive to some extent.

deadybai

That was a great game when Ireland came into it. Pity we have to wait another year at least to see it again. How they go ahead with the series.

twinytwo

deadybai wrote: »

That was a great game when Ireland came into it. Pity we have to wait another year at least to see it again. How they go ahead with the series.

Did they give a reason as to why only one test was played?

HighKing33

twinytwo wrote: »

Did they give a reason as to why only one test was played?

The AFL season is longer now, expansion teams and training camps - also the reason given as to why Ciaran Sheehan wasn't participating.

It's probably a better balanced game than we give it credit for. If it is to continue than the one match test is the most way to go however it just doesn't compare to a top game of gaelic football like the Kerry V Mayo epics we saw this year. Still think it's a shame that the inter-pros have been abandoned in favour of this but Paddy's Day is all about the clubs now and rightly so.

seanhynes

seanhynes wrote: »

****ing aussie ***** had -10 how the hell have they blown a 34 point lead ugh dirty *****:mad:

Was the standard handicap 10?.

God that's sickening I was happy with the looks of HT/FT at 6/5 so wasn't bothered looking at the handicap.

It looked like it would be 40 or 50 up to the point Ireland got on the run.

It probably best it didn't go that way as I'd like to see it continue and a lob sided game wouldn't do anything to grab interest in Australia anyway.

I think the way forward has to be some compromise on talent by the Australians but to at least continue with the All-Australian selection, maybe have 4/5 rookies added to a 15 or so AA selection.

Ireland likewise have to up their selections, we seem to have a policy over the past 8 years of picking ''players suited to the game'' who wouldn't get anywhere near our GAA top 15 list.
We can't pick our team from the All-Stars as our championship requires rewarding them based on final standings whereas you can get an AA selection playing for a non finals teams due to the long season and equal opportunity.
So we need to find another way bar the current manager picking, to get our best players involved.

long range shooter

chrysagon wrote: »

i suggest if we are hammered, that we dont let them back in the country, ...stop the plane from landing.. divert them to Tromso in Norway.. start a GAA commune up there!!.. let them practise with oval snowballs..

Don't want them here

icdg

Chance to watch the Australian TV coverage on BT Sport 2 at the moment.

howiya

gilberto_eire wrote: »

I think the way forward has to be some compromise on talent by the Australians but to at least continue with the All-Australian selection, maybe have 4/5 rookies added to a 15 or so AA selection.

Couldn't disagree more. We wanted the Australians to take it seriously and they did. Now because they win they shouldn't have picked as strong a team.

We need to pick our best players and hopefully when the club season is (if ever) restructured more of the top players will be available.

Management also have to take some of the blame. Team looked ill prepared, seemed to think the game was all about the mark and were very tactically naive in the first half

NoelJ

howiya wrote: »

Couldn't disagree more. We wanted the Australians to take it seriously and they did. Now because they win they shouldn't have picked as strong a team.

We need to pick our best players and hopefully when the club season is (if ever) restructured more of the top players will be available.

Management also have to take some of the blame. Team looked ill prepared, seemed to think the game was all about the mark and were very tactically naive in the first half

I agree with this, the Aussies put out their full team with most of their players being all stars. I'm not a big GAA fan but there wasn't many all stars on the team. Was it just they weren't suited to International Rules or just didn't want to travel?

I'd love to see this taken seriously and have a all stars 15 vs all stars 15