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Message to OZ- IR is over
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To a man, Irish visitors to this site make exactly that point about the behaviour of the AFL players.
Dingo
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I think thats a fair and valid point... I play GAA and AFL and watch a lot of both on tv. I think that the IR rules series doesn't demostrate the the passion, skill and commitment of either sport.
Both sports are great to play, massively entertaining when the elite are playing and totally unique in Australia and Ireland. I think that everyone here should agree that the IR series does nothing for the AFL or GAA apart from giving the officials a holiday every two years. I've no problem in saying that when I play a good game of AFL I think there is no better sport in the world - however when I play a good game of GAA I think the same... I'm glad there is no 'shirt-fronting' or 'Biffs' in our AFL league in Ireland as it would take away from the skill of the game. The joy of a pack mark is comparable to turning a man inside out in GAA and slotting a point...
Individually they are great sports - combined or compromised they can't ever work !
Go Swans !
Go Kerry !
geraghty did. through a straw. hohoho.
Dingo is right though. the IR with the best will in the world can't offer the best of either sport. a shame really, but there you go
This thread keeps popping up in my bigfooty list. Honestly who gives a crap now.
When I think of Ireland I think of tiny little men with tight green suits and a funny little hat.
Lol, your coach, indeed your whole team did little to change this stereotype. Lol.
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International Rules has to develop its own culture. It has to be seen as sport in its own right. These threads illustrate that AFL supporters see it as if it is Australian Rules, GAA supporters see it as Gaelic football. Ironically there is greater physicality in International Rules than there is in Australian Football. That's the key to the disputes.
I disagree. Perhaps more than in the AFL, but not more than any amateur game of Australian football. In the AFL physicality is regulated and acted upon by the AFL.
In amateur games, nobody sees what happens behind play.
In the IR, it really has no bearing on anything, therefore players cannot really be put through a tribunal. Just FYI, if there was an AFL tribunal system in place for the IR, one or two of the Australians may have got one or two weeks suspension, but your coach and captain would have been fined astronomical amounts for bringing the game into direpute. Rubbishing the umpiring is seen as a much worse offense than putting someone in a sling tackle. Also, kneeing people in the back is just about punishable by death.
Biggest load of horse******** I have read.
Funny thing is that the Irish papers are full of the violence in GAA games over the past couple of months - refs being punched up, matches being abandoned, mass punch-ups, hospitalisations etc.
Ah, to be sure, but they are just poor wee amateur lads who need to work the next day and would never go out to hurt each other - intimidation and taking out opposition players is just something those nasty thuggish AFL players do..
Ah, to be sure, but they are just poor wee amateur lads who need to work the next day and would never go out to hurt each other - intimidation and taking out opposition players is just something those nasty thuggish AFL players do..
The bolded bit is close to the most ridiculous comment you've made in this thread.
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Which is why there is a greater level of violence in International Rules than there is in Australian Rules, why AFL players will continue to act with greater degrees of violence than they do in their club matches.
Also, players are more likely to turn around and get stuck into some dirty little prick that knees them or their team mate in the back when they are representing their country.
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If you mean O'Mahoney, three players came at him with as weak a shoulder bump as you'll see. Davey was one, I can't recall who the other two were. He out bumped the three of them. AFL players are at their toughest when attacking from behind or in numbers.
Theres a bump and then theres a bump. When players are jostling, a bump means, "hey buddy, I'm tougher than u, back the ******** up." Ask Byron Pickett what a real hip and shoulder is.
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Byron Pickett's bumps invariably come when the victim has his head over the ball and doesn't know he's coming.
Not true. Ask Rhett Biglands who is twice Byron's size yet still came off second best after initiating body contact.
Re: The end of Intl Rules?
Who really cares. It is just a jaunt for Dimwit and his mates.
Who really cares. It is just a jaunt for Dimwit and his mates.
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If memory serves me correctly, Biglands was the initiator i.e. it was Bigland's bump, not Pickett's.
Did you even see it?
The point I was making was in response to your suggestion that all Picketts bumps are cheap shots. They are not and he will take on a player regardless of the circumstances. Believe me most of the time Pickett's opponents are well aware that he is in the area. In addition Pickett is quite prepared to go after the football when there's a risk of being hit himself.
In the case of the Biglands incident Rhett thought he'd put on a shepherd and went to initiate contact. Byron obliged him with a great bump which left Biglands on the turf gasping like a great useless blowfly. The main point here being that Biggles did not have his head over the ball, is much bigger than Pickett and yet Byron was happy to take him on.
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Got me ! No. I recall reading about it, that's all. A mere detail like not having seen an incident hasn't stopped all the strong opinions expressed in this thread.Did you actually see it?
