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Removing the tackle would make this game farcical. There have always been problems because of the two Country's different approaches. The last two years have driven a wedge between the two. Work it out for yourself what was different about the last two years. Retain the tackle, don't allow...

Comments from 'top GAA Official' in today's IRiah Examiner... “What has been lost in the whole thing is that there has been some wonderful games in the underage series down the years and only one time that I can remember where a player had to be disciplined (since 1998),” he said. “Colm...

Accepted. We call that a shoulder. What I mean by a bump is the shoulder(?) charge into the chest of the oncoming player, as executed by Llyod(?) late in the first quarter.... half...F*8k it I can't remember. :rolleyes: You know what I mean. Like the tackle on Geraghty it is not legal in IR...

Was at that match. There was the usual focus on trying to prevent fighting in that match. Scott had Geraghty by the jumper, Geraghty knew Scott would be sent off if he thumped him. I'd swear Geraghty said like 'go on hit me you tool'! Of course Scott was replaced in that game. That was a close...

Elvis really was the King, so your name is tantamount to blasphemy.:) If I am wrong then I have been deluded for a long time. THE BUMP IS NOT LEGAL IN IR. The tackle was not legal in IR. Stop saying they were.

Living up to your name there Bollox.:) For the last three quarters the team was without, for all intents and purposes, their only two professionals and Geraghty. They were shell shocked (read Benny Coulters account of being first up to Geraghty after the tackle). Seán Boylan had thrown in the...

A number of threads here have discussed cultural and interpretative differences between the two codes which I think make it impossible to continue. I stand to be corrected but, up to now at least, most Irish people would have thought that they take their cultural pointers from more than one...

No, by the bump I meant the guy being charged in the chest after he had disposed of the ball. There has been talk about it on this thread. I only saw it on a Poitical discussion programme (Prime Time) on Monday where they were talking in general about violence in sport. Can't remember it on the...

The tribunal is irrelevant because the series will not continue. It's a dead duck and would lack all credibility if it continued. If Ireland became competitive again the Australians would be saying that they are being prevented from playing the way they want to. It would be a joke.

Good post, but it would take years to master a proper pickup in Gaelic football. You have to have a toe under the ball before you are allowed pick. Also, you cannot hold the ball for more than about 4 seconds without soloing or hopping. You can't hop twice in a row and you must either hop or...

Agree with the first paragraph. Not the second. Barry Hall was tempted to nail him, but didn't. But because he was still considering it got too close and clipped him. Funny I think that the was the last major incident in the match. The Aussies had us well softened up by then and ran through us...

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I have to get a little bit insulting here because there's a lot of going on. Cricket is a game from your mother country which is of no interest to most Irishmen. More people play draughts than cricket in Ireland. You have reserved the Union Jack at the top of your flag and, correct if I'm wrong...

I was at the match, Barry Hall deserved a yellow card, did nothing to avoid the player after the ball was gone and tripped him from behind. Tadgh Kenneally is obviously familiar with your sporting culture and, though I believe he thinks he was taken out, he is trying to laugh it off and say he...

I was at the game and a couple of people watching on TV said it didn't look that bad. I'll tell you most of the crowd around me were insenced (sp?). It seems the producers deliberately didn't show half of what was going on. I didn't see the Geraghty incident because I thought the ref had blown...

Re: Watch this The whole thing is now so ridiculous, there is no hope left for this concept.

Jeez guys, calm down. It's just turned into a rant. My understanding is that D Mitchell is Australian, no? Your guy completing the tackle by falling high on Geraghty and finishing with his arm across his neck seems to me to reflect the spirit of the tackle, rather than its legality. Someone...

You 'bollox' you are exactly right. I favour no. five. There is no way a game can be played next year with any credibility. Park it until Nicky Brennan is long gone and make an attempt again later on to revive it. This is what happened in the early nineties. Irish Indo today said most Irish...

Geraghty was exonerated because he was attacked from behind, pinned to the ground and raised his knee to protect himself. The prevailing view was that he did not strike with his knee. As for the tackle, one can undestand why an Aussie player would execute a tackle as it comes instinctively to...