what does it matter about the first tackle and our middle quarter...the game was rubbish and as a concept it's dead in the water....i would have loved to have seen the gooch up against bryan cullen in a leinster munster clash or mortimer taking on justin mcmahon in a connacht ulster clash under lights in croke park,...bring back the inter-provincials..its better than this rubbish

mayotyroneman (Tyrone) - Posts: 1821 - 23/10/2010 21:50:59    802556

mayotyroneman
County: Tyrone
Posts: 829

802515 ah come on this game doesn't have a tacle...how many times were players blown for not putting in the "right" tackle...its a nonsense of a game...doesn't matter about next week..this game is dead in the water...aussies will run riot given their run out this week....agree with football first..these players should have been representing their provinces this weekend in a feast of GAELIC FOOTBALL in croke park

Sport aimed at spectators is always enhanced with more scoring, so the behind in "Compromise Rules" is a good idea. Particularly for the audience.

As for the game itself, well it was below the standard of what we've come to expect from Ireland and Australia over the past decade. But maybe thats the law of averages, we can't expect a spectacle all the time. So its to be expected that there's a few calling for an end to this game.

Then again, one wonders how these same people continue to watch Gaelic Football if a gung-ho approach is all they want to watch.

Loyal2TheRoyal (Meath) - Posts: 4522 - 23/10/2010 21:51:05    802557

Worst sport EVER.

Coylers Elbow (Meath) - Posts: 1075 - 23/10/2010 21:54:21    802558

dellboy...brendan murphy is playing in the carlow football final tomorrow

mayotyroneman (Tyrone) - Posts: 1821 - 23/10/2010 21:54:34    802561

Somebody needs to go out next week and hit an Aussie a dig in the first minute....step forward Tadgh Kennelly.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9829 - 23/10/2010 21:58:27    802565

Folks…step back a moment the true calibre of the game is one discussion, but more significantly and worrying is the shambles witnessed last night bears a true reflection of where Gaelic football is currently at the moment. The Aussies were far superior and more comfortable kicking and fielding the round football than our supposable elite footballers who are kicking the dam thing since they were 3 years of age!

Current day Gaelic Football, we rarely kick the football anymore, it's a hand pass to someone 3-5 meters away across, back or forward across the pitch until we eventually put our specialised kicker in a scoring position. Look at our own game and last nights performance isn't one pit surprising at all!

Per Ignem (Wexford) - Posts: 385 - 24/10/2010 09:02:29    802572

Has to be said Ireland were so poor. I watched the first two quarters and switched over to x factor! A bunch of wimps the Ireland players were portrayed as forever playing the ball on the ground soccer style, there shooting was terrible, obviously Ireland have the advantage in this area with the round ball but the Aussies shooting were better but they missed a few real easy ones which could have seen them more in the lead. And from what I seen the Irish were more agressive, not really channeled than the Austrailians. Do people agree?

tullyframerover (Down) - Posts: 276 - 24/10/2010 09:30:12    802575

Strange as it may seem, the aussies were better at playing gaelic than the Irish team. They were more comfortable with the ball, fielded better, shooting was better, & tactically they got it right. Ireland are lucky not to be further behind on the scoreboard. They played poor but are still in touch.

It was only in the last 10 mins the Irish stopped messing about with soccer tricks & actually decised to bend their backs to pick up the ball & do what they are good at, play gaelic football!

Hopefully lessons learnt & we are in for a good game before a big crowd in Croke Park.

blu (Down) - Posts: 1240 - 24/10/2010 10:03:46    802581

I think we kept changing players to much, the lads didn't get the chance to settle into the game

Barrowsider (Carlow) - Posts: 1711 - 24/10/2010 13:03:12    802626

Tohill made a bags of it with soccer tactics and the players themselves pulled it out of the fire by playing gaelic football. The irish were woeful and can only improve in the next game.

Cluxton was brilliant but the narrow pitch didn't help him.

Abolish it because we lost and played crap? sados.

Floops (Dublin) - Posts: 1623 - 24/10/2010 13:49:21    802642

Ireland's defence was lacking; the Irish team needed a leader, reckon Tohill should have GALVINISED the team.........pity he thought he would be wasting Paul Galvins time by asking him to take part in the trials; pity too, John Galvin is injured-both these Galvins are the types of players who can lead. Brogan though, a class act, well deserving his footballer of the year!

kerrykerry (Kerry) - Posts: 1779 - 24/10/2010 14:07:58    802644

Its an awful mongrel of a game. Think with the way emigration is back in fashion, lets develop Gaelic and hurling abroad and get the international games from that.

bananapublican (Leitrim) - Posts: 878 - 24/10/2010 14:15:33    802653

why wer the messing around with the ball.. they wer been stupid makin silly mistakes.. playing soccer for most of it.. never mind the comeback we should of been all over them.. i found it very hard to watch..

toprow2010 (Kildare) - Posts: 214 - 24/10/2010 14:25:33    802656

Not sure what the Irish referee's name is (coldrick maybe?) but I thought he was poor. No knowledge or appreciation of the tackle or physical contact of Aussie Rules. Almost every free-kick given for incorrect tackling were wrong. He even gave a free-kick against an Australian for a handpass with open hand- the handball in Aussie Rules has always been with the fist, they never use open hand and didnt on this occasion either. You could see the puzzled look on each Australians face after he blew them for incorrect tackling. Hopefully a different refereeing representative for next week.

icehonesty (Wexford) - Posts: 2581 - 24/10/2010 14:33:09    802660

boring boring boring

maco (Meath) - Posts: 357 - 24/10/2010 14:41:44    802664

Leighton Glynn once again played well.

Wicklowman (Wicklow) - Posts: 1145 - 24/10/2010 14:54:04    802669

You'd wonder at the intelligence of people that think the Australians would beat us at gaelic football.
We played IR at training one night for the craic.
We got sick of it after 15 minutes because it was so slow and had a proper game instead.
Nobody could do the tackle properly.
Kick, stop, kick, stop, kick, stop, shoot.
Anyone who thinks IR is basically gaelic football knows NOTHING about sport.
When Ireland actually had a go in the last few minutes and played a fast gaelic football style game instead of stopping and taking the mark we were walking through them.

Coylers Elbow (Meath) - Posts: 1075 - 24/10/2010 15:40:37    802682

24/10/2010 09:30:12
tullyframerover
County: Down
Posts: 228

802575
Has to be said Ireland were so poor. I watched the first two quarters and switched over to x factor! A bunch of wimps the Ireland players were portrayed as forever playing the ball on the ground soccer style, there shooting was terrible, obviously Ireland have the advantage in this area with the round ball but the Aussies shooting were better but they missed a few real easy ones which could have seen them more in the lead. And from what I seen the Irish were more agressive, not really channeled than the Austrailians. Do people agree?

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Hard to agree with you when you're contradicting yourself

You went from "A bunch of wimps" to "And from what I seen the Irish were more agressive"

As it happens, I don't agree with either of your two contrasting opinions.

Count_Awesome (Kildare) - Posts: 736 - 24/10/2010 15:51:08    802688

Looks to me that we were just very flat and scared of the tackle, no decent ball going into the forwards... I think Brogan got the ball passed to him twice, we need to be looking for marks nice and close to the goal.. all in all.. Ireland were very poor and we made the Aussies look far better than they actually are!

I'd still use the soccer tactics but not as frequently...

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 24/10/2010 16:23:12    802716

mayotyroneman we get it you dont like it!!! and what is your problem with players playing in there county final the day after? fair play to them. they are doing what they want to do and that is play football for club and country.

WICKLOW.DUDE (Wicklow) - Posts: 28 - 24/10/2010 16:34:35    802721