International rules

**CollegeTillIDie** · 28/10/2005, 4:11 PM

Originally Posted by Countyman

Aside from that we were hammered fairly convincingly.

Team selection was all wrong.

Get Brian Mullins in there for next year.

Yes and Steve Collins and that All Black that nearly crippled Brian O'Driscoll on the coaching staff.

**JoeSemi** · 28/10/2005, 9:09 PM

That wasn't sport today, just a relentless barrage of thuggery directed by the Aussies. Theres a code of conduct in AFL and GAA that doesn't involve pinning lads to the ground and giving him sly digs around the ceann. The series now only seems like a medium for this behaviour and has to revamped in some form or another. A neutral referee has to be introduced as favoritism was clearly shown on both sides.

Get them back to Dublin next year and unleash a crowd of hurlers on the pr!cks. After today I think Croker would sell out 3 times over to see that!

**Risteard** · 28/10/2005, 9:57 PM

Fecking hell.
I used love international rules but just saw the highlights there and its ridiculous.
Had great potentiol but will never be realised with the eternal risk of the matches descending into something like that.
Wrap it up now i say.

**geysir** · 29/10/2005, 12:41 AM

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

It's pure unadulterated thuggery that was seen on the field today.
We should send out a club GAA side from Wicklow to play them next year

That thought had entered my head during that spectacle, how about Baltinglass? The referee might be also be "persauded" to show some more respect for the rules by the sight of a car with a large boot parked outside the dressing room door.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 29/10/2005, 10:15 AM

We could also invite Jonah Lomu to line out for us.... just to even things out a bit.

**Dodge** · 29/10/2005, 11:58 AM

Got to laugh at the GAA fans who constantly ave a go at football being a game for pansie but when they come up against an aussie team who put it up to them they go off crying....

**Maz** · 29/10/2005, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Got to laugh at the GAA fans who constantly ave a go at football being a game for pansie but when they come up against an aussie team who put it up to them they go off crying....

Ah Dodge, there is putting it up to them and assaulting them. What went on yesterday was the latter

**geysir** · 29/10/2005, 2:09 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Got to laugh at the GAA fans who constantly ave a go at football being a game for pansie but when they come up against an aussie team who put it up to them they go off crying....

I have to admit during that spectacle, that too many of GAA players, regardless of the size of the opponent, too easily ended up underneath on the ground being battered. That was no example to be setting the children of Ireland watching it.
I yearned for the days when Brian Mullins, Jack O Shea, Bomber Liston etc. held court, dispensed justice and left the pitch unbowed. The team yesterday were battered and bowed. That hurt.

**Ringy** · 30/10/2005, 12:17 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Got to laugh at the GAA fans who constantly ave a go at football being a game for pansie but when they come up against an aussie team who put it up to them they go off crying....

Well to be fair could ya imagine the soccer crowd out there they would have been padded from head to toe.Gaa is a physical sport something modern day soccer lacks but that game crossed a line today.

**Ringy** · 30/10/2005, 12:19 AM

Originally Posted by Risteard

Fecking hell.
I used love international rules but just saw the highlights there and its ridiculous.
Had great potentiol but will never be realised with the eternal risk of the matches descending into something like that.
Wrap it up now i say.

Have to agree the GAA has a duty to protect its players and they were not protected out there.

**Beavis** · 30/10/2005, 11:34 AM

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** · 30/10/2005, 10:16 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 01/11/2005, 8:00 AM

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".