International Rules 2015

paintitwhite

Anyone know what players are currently in training for this?

homerjay2005

paintitwhite wrote: »

Anyone know what players are currently in training for this?

the australia team is very strong. anybody know the irish one?

Australia Squad:
Eddie Betts (Adelaide)
Grant Birchall (Hawthorn)
Luke Breust (Hawthorn)
Patrick Dangerfield (Geelong)
Dustin Fletcher (Essendon)
Andrew Gaff (West Coast)
Brendon Goddard (Essendon)
Robbie Gray (Port Adelaide)
Dyson Heppell (Essendon)
Luke Hodge (Hawthorn)
Sam Mitchell (Hawthorn)
Leigh Montagna (St Kilda)
David Mundy (Fremantle)
Robert Murphy (Western Bulldogs)
Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda)
Tom Rockliff (Brisbane Lions)
Jarryd Roughead (Hawthorn)
Nick Smith (Sydney Swans)
Jake Stringer (Western Bulldogs)
Harry Taylor (Geelong)
Chad Wingard (Port Adelaide)
Easton Wood (Western Bulldogs)

iDave

In before the 'it should be scrapped' brigade.

ProudDUB

paintitwhite wrote: »

Anyone know what players are currently in training for this?

No official squad has been announced yet. Joe Kernan is waiting for all the club finals to be over, before he knows who can and can't commit to the series. I heard there are over 40 players on the extended panel doing try outs, but it will be another couple of weeks before the official panel is announced.

deadybai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3AWLmtTblk

Pity we won't be seeing this beast again ::eek:

The one off test throws-in at 7:00pm on Saturday the 21st of November at Croke Park. RTE will broadcast the game.

The shinty versus Scotland will be on at 4:30 the same day in Croke Park. Not sure if that's being broadcast too.

Hopefully the game is a success because I love this series.

ProudDUB

Berno's gonna be there anyway.

http://www.newstalk.com/Bernard-Brogan-to-captain-Ireland-International-Rules-team-

iDave

BB a good choice for captain.

ProudDUB

Can't ever get enough of seeing Dubs lifting silverware in Croker !

iDave

Hoping a good strong panel is named with mainly players who were involved in the business end of the championship.
With all due respect but a team full of lads knocked out in the qualifiers just won't cut it. It'll just be a repeat of last year.

homerjay2005

Any word on a panel yet?

benchgrinder

lee keegan vice captain

big_drive

is the shinty being played the same day?

Edit*sorry just saw this was already mentioned in a earlier post

ProudDUB

homerjay2005 wrote: »

Any word on a panel yet?

Being announed on Wednesday.

iDave

Squad announced


http://m.hoganstand.com/Home/Details/246732?county=National

Bluezar

Strong Squad - definitely going now!

Hesh's Umpire

A real pity we don't have Tuohy and Hanley.

big_drive

One of the stronger squads in a few years

homerjay2005

strong squad, theres a few notable absentees -

Moran, Maher, Crowley, Enright and O Donoghue from Kerry.

Flynn and Cian O Sullivan Dublin.

can understand however why most of the above are missing, mainly due to injuries.

Chocolate girl

Going to this for 1st time looking forward to it. Good panel.

macslash

Why are none of the Australian based players not included? Injuries?

I was in Brisbane during the Summer and saw Hanley play first hand, he was the best player by a mile. Some athlete.

Al_Coholic

what channel is this on

SSK

Is that really considered a strong Irish squad? Haven't seen a whole lot of championship over the last couple of years but outside of Brogan, McManus and Connolly there's not a whole lot of proven scoring threat from what I can see.

What sort of players are Brennan, McDonald and Doyle? I barely even recognise the names TBH.

The Australian squad is very strong but they don't have Naitanui this year which is definitely a boost to Ireland's chances. I think they got three or four scores directly from his utter domination of ball ups last year.

homerjay2005

SSK wrote: »

Is that really considered a strong Irish squad? Haven't seen a whole lot of championship over the last couple of years but outside of Brogan, McManus and Connolly there's not a whole lot of proven scoring threat from what I can see.

What sort of players are Brennan, McDonald and Doyle? I barely even recognise the names TBH.

The Australian squad is very strong but they don't have Naitanui this year which is definitely a boost to Ireland's chances. I think they got three or four scores directly from his utter domination of ball ups last year.

its a very strong team with 5 current all-star forwards, while there are a few notable players absent (O Donoghue, Moran, Flynn, Cian O Sullivan and a few more) its a strong as it gets being realistic.

McBrearty, Kerrigan are both very lethal forwards and then you have the likes of Harte, Keegan and Jack Mc that are brilliant at attacking from half back line.

big_drive

Its as strong a panel as you'll get in the modern game. Priority for a lot of players this time of the year is the club championship. Or else recovery for next year for those who've had a long year of games

iDave

The match will be on RTE 2.

ThunbergsAreGo

Looking forward to this, just got tickets today

ThunbergsAreGo

Anyone have a premium ticket they are looking to offload?

PTH2009

Are the Scottish shinty players professional ???

Consey

If anyone looking to offload any tickets for tonight ? Be buying them shortly....looking for 3

threeball

Talk about the most inappropriate time and game to commemorate bloody Sunday.

PressRun

Will Philly McMahon do something controversial? :P

Laois_Man

Just had a gander around the most prominent Australian news sites and this game has nobody's attention over there!

The Premier Man

Ireland off to a great start 18-6 up after 14 mins

PressRun

Say what you want about the game itself, but it's still pretty cool to see the likes of Aidan O'Shea, Diarmuid Connolly, Conor McManus, Lee Keegan, Philly McMahon, etc. all playing together on the same team. Kind of weird dream team scenario.

Hammer Archer

PressRun wrote: »

Say what you want about the game itself, but it's still pretty cool to see the likes of Aidan O'Shea, Diarmuid Connolly, Conor McManus, Lee Keegan, Philly McMahon, etc. all playing together on the same team. Kind of weird dream team scenario.

Feel dirty cheering on the Dublin players :pac:

Dirty Dingus McGee

Ireland playing well at the moment there foot passing has been very crisp and there playing sensibly and actually taking there marks rather than just playing like gaelic. Fielding has been excellent from Ireland aswell.

big_drive

I'm not a huge fan of the game but enjoy watching it as a once off thing.

Think it's better too as one game instead of dragging it out over 2 games with aggregate score

big_drive

The Dublin players look very sharp to be fair.

Connollys ball skills are great to watch

seligehgit

O Shea and Brogan outstanding thus far. Irish footpassing very good.

Stoner

Great score from Keegan

Dirty Dingus McGee

Ireland playing very well.Skill level has been high from Ireland so far, the fielding in particular has been outstanding.

Hammer Archer

The physical condition of the Irish players is unrecognisable to that of the players in the 2000s (especially the massacre in 2005). Much more able to stand up physically to the Aussies.

zetecescort

are they using a standard O'Neills ball? maybe its how I'm not used to all the kick passing but the ball looks lighter to me, travelling further than usual

Stoner

Hammer Archer wrote:

The physical condition of the Irish players is unrecognisable to that of the players in the 2000s (especially the massacre in 2005). Much more able to stand up physically to the Aussies.

True, they picked good footballlers all the same plenty of guys who can take a score on their own and they are going for it, very few of the very hard working players that county teams have.

O'Shea is the man of the match, hopefully he'll keep it up for the full game.

Hammer Archer

Jaysus Cadogan flattened the Aussie trying to hit him off the ball.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Great 3rd quarter from Australia.

Only 11 in it now.Ireland have got defensive in the 3rd quarter they really need to push on and finish the game off at the start of the final quarter.

Dirty Dingus McGee

zetecescort wrote: »

are they using a standard O'Neills ball? maybe its how I'm not used to all the kick passing but the ball looks lighter to me, travelling further than usual

No.The ball is lighter than a Gaelic Football.

I think in the past Ireland struggled with it as they used to over kick the ball and it would fly.

Dirty Dingus McGee

I love Tadgh Kennelly's half Kerry half Aussie accent.

Hammer Archer

They're sitting back far too much alright. Morgan's kickouts were poor that quarter too. The kick passing has been a bit lazy as well. Ball dropping short can put a player under massive pressure especially in his own half.

seligehgit

Glorious goal chance fluffed by Australia, Ireland are struggling.

seligehgit

Ireland conspiring to lose this game!