International rules

[Beavis]

Have to agree with an earlier poster, Ireland were pansies on Friday. I was shouting at the screen for someone to give fight back but we bottled it. The tackling was nonexistant, I think to do with the fact that anytime we went for a tackle we got the sh!t kicked out of us on the ground,and many preferred to stay out of it. Ross Munelly was a particularly bad example of this, next time we'll have to pick lads who arent afraid of the rough side. Bring back Vinny Murphy !
Only Benny Coulter came out with any credit and he's one of our small players.

The game had to be cancelled in the 80s because it was a pure brawl. The only thing thats changed since is the Irish being far less aggresive. Instead of being a fair brawl, our lads just get a pasting.

[Ringy]

Have to agree with an earlier poster, Ireland were pansies on Friday. I was shouting at the screen for someone to give fight back but we bottled it. The tackling was nonexistant, I think to do with the fact that anytime we went for a tackle we got the sh!t kicked out of us on the ground,and many preferred to stay out of it. Ross Munelly was a particularly bad example of this, next time we'll have to pick lads who arent afraid of the rough side. Bring back Vinny Murphy !
Only Benny Coulter came out with any credit and he's one of our small players.

The game had to be cancelled in the 80s because it was a pure brawl. The only thing thats changed since is the Irish being far less aggresive. Instead of being a fair brawl, our lads just get a pasting.



Have to disagree I dont think Ireland were pansies out there we went out to play football and not wrestleing or boxing and we did go out there and play football even though it wasnt to great intent.

[Macy]

Was off on Friday, and it was great to see the self styled hard men of Irish sport get a hammering. The Irish team bottled it and went missing from what was shown on the tele.

Couple of points though on the disgracefully biased RTE coverage. The irish team could do no wrong, despite many of the incidents not being shown from the start. I mean one of them they had a go at the Aussie for being 3rd man in when there were 3 Irish players around one aussie - he was 5th man in. This happened loads of times, with two fellas being shown fighting, with the spark not being shown but it was always blamed on the Aussies. They also crucified the aussie ref for a decision when it was clear the aussie fella caught it first and the irish guy took it out of his hands on the way down. Every tackle by the Aussie's was dirty, no matter what. Again the hammered an Aussie player for going into a guy when the irish guy fell in front of him.

Imo Marty Morrissey and the co commentator did more to harm the makey up sport by playing up the aussie play to make excuses for "their boys".