Fuck off for yourself fitzy,I’m not racist…
Anyway I’m informed these cunts can’t read or write so no harm done…
[quote=“Faldo, post: 843879, member: 1520”]Fuck off for yourself fitzy,I’m not racist…
Anyway I’m informed these cunts can’t read or write so no harm done…[/quote]
+1, im not racist either and i am offended at that jibe.
we’re merely calling it as we see it based on facts that are supplied to us by the resident antipodean posters,
I don’t know anybody in Ireland who has any interest in this bullshit. And it’s stupid that they’re not sending over their best available team either.
These people need to take a long hard look at themselves. This shall be their only chance for amnesty.
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Martin McHugh knows the score 
[SIZE=6]McHugh commends board for sticking to their guns[/SIZE]
Martin McHugh believes the Donegal county board is right not to change the date of their SFC final to accommodate Michael Murphy’s involvement in the International Rules series.
Murphy is facing a club v country dilemma after his club Glenswilly qualified to meet Killybegs in the county final, which is fixed for Sunday week, October 20 - less than 24 hours after he is due to captain Ireland in the first Test against Australia at Kingspan Breffni Park.
While having a certain amount of sympathy for the 2012 All-Ireland winning captain, McHugh insists the International Rules should not impact on club activity, and is therefore backing the county board’s stance.
“It’s very disappointing for Michael Murphy that he finds himself torn between his club and his country,” the legendary Donegal forward writes in the Irish Daily Star.
"I’ve talked to him about it and my belief is you can’t go changing the date of your county final and you can’t play it on a Friday night.
"That would be denigrating the biggest day in the club calendar, and if you do that, where does it stop with club football? It’s already taking a kicking from the county game and doesn’t need another boot from a hybrid, exhibition game.
"Look at the way the Australians treat this series - we should take our cue from them. They’re not sending close to their strongest side and they’ve used it as a free holiday in the past.
“Are we going to tamper with the bedrock of the GAA for a made up game that is played twice every three years where the rules change when one team gets on top too much? We can’t kick club football again.”
I agree with everything Martin McHugh says there and it surprises me because I think he often comes across as a smug, arrogant cunt…
…takes one to know one, I guess.
I totally agree with Donegal. But it’s no reason to bash the game.
It is dead in the water one feels though.
Ya kev,this has died a death a few years back now at this stage…this years “games” are going to be the worst in the series me thinks
I think the day we bashed the Oirish this game died a death
For the Oirish to lose at their own sport was bad, to get bitched slap while losing made it worse
This game has zero profile over here but it would be pretty funny if a Victorian Indigeneous side could beat the Oirish at GGA
As someone who would watch any game of football and try to take positives from it purely because of my love for the game, I just cannot endorse this stupid game.
I have travelled to it whilst in Australia and went to it in limerick a few years back and am of the opinion it is the biggest waste of time there possibly is.
I will never believe that players feel its d ultimate honour to play for their country. It is just a jolly up and more power to them for that. As amateurs they deserve that and d trip to Australia is a chance of a lifetime.
The facts of it are it isn’t even a game just a poor attempt at combining two different games. That and d fact that I’ve never heard of any testseries being decided over 2 games and not 3!
Enjoy the international series 2013 people. I, for one, won’t be tuning in!
I can’t believe this dog’s breakfast is still on the go. It should have been put out of it’s misery years ago, the novelty has long worn off.
[quote=“Evileye, post: 844211, member: 1564”]As someone who would watch any game of football and try to take positives from it purely because of my love for the game, I just cannot endorse this stupid game.
I have travelled to it whilst in Australia and went to it in limerick a few years back and am of the opinion it is the biggest waste of time there possibly is.
I will never believe that players feel its d ultimate honour to play for their country. It is just a jolly up and more power to them for that. As amateurs they deserve that and d trip to Australia is a chance of a lifetime.
The facts of it are it isn’t even a game just a poor attempt at combining two different games. That and d fact that I’ve never heard of any testseries being decided over 2 games and not 3!
Enjoy the international series 2013 people. I, for one, won’t be tuning in![/quote]
how twee that muldoons think a trip to oz is a chance of a lifetime
dogs breakfast?
Its just GGA with a defined tackle:D
shows what you really think of the GGA
Was this not Kev’s idea?
Where he was going to train a team of aborigines to play football and then bring them on a tour of Ireland?
[quote=“mickee321, post: 843885, member: 367”]+1, im not racist either and i am offended at that jibe.
we’re merely calling it as we see it based on facts that are supplied to us by the resident antipodean posters,[/quote]
Would you fuck off Mickee, and spare me the sanctimonious jibe. You were called out for racist remarks. Faldo doesn’t surpirse me, as he’s a bit dim, you do surprise me. I couldn’t give a shit what you thini of the rules series and there;s obviously some good arguments against it here, but racist remarks about the indigenous players are pretty pathetic.
This series needs to be good, or it will be the last one.
[quote=“Fitzy, post: 844221, member: 236”]Would you fuck off Mickee, and spare me the sanctimonious jibe. You were called out for racist remarks. Faldo doesn’t surpirse me, as he’s a bit dim, you do surprise me. I couldn’t give a shit what you thini of the rules series and there;s obviously some good arguments against it here, but racist remarks about the indigenous players are pretty pathetic.
This series needs to be good, or it will be the last one.[/quote]
Mickee’s desperate attempts to appear edgy and controversial have led him to make racist remarks. He did so in the NCAA football thread too. Fairly pathetic attention seeking from a lonely guy is all it is.
[quote=“Fitzy, post: 844221, member: 236”]Would you fuck off Mickee, and spare me the sanctimonious jibe. You were called out for racist remarks. Faldo doesn’t surpirse me, as he’s a bit dim, you do surprise me. I couldn’t give a shit what you thini of the rules series and there;s obviously some good arguments against it here, but racist remarks about the indigenous players are pretty pathetic.
This series needs to be good, or it will be the last one.[/quote]
Where he was going to train a team of aborigines to play football and then bring them on a tour of Ireland?
To play Gaelic. Not compromise. Take the tackling out of the game (as in AR tackling) and nobody would touch them.
Something they’re well used to
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
By John Fogarty
Don’t believe what you’re being sold about the International Rules series.
Don’t think for a second that the team Ireland are facing in Cavan on Saturday and Croke Park seven days later are Australia.
That might be the way it’s being projected by GAA chiefs but they realised back in May that the AFL weren’t living up to their side of the bargain when their chief executive Andrew Demetriou told Páraic Duffy they were considering sending an all-indigenous team to Ireland.
As Duffy recalled of the AFL’s suggestion a couple of months later: “We discussed it and felt that in the end, it’s up to the Australians to send whatever team they want. But it’s very hard to say it’s a team representative of all teams and players in the AFL because it’s not. Their argument was the indigenous players were very keen on it. I suspect that the last few years they’ve had trouble getting their best players to play and they want to recognise the contribution of the indigenous players to the AFL. But we do have concerns.”
Those worries are nowhere to be seen in advertisements where we are told the opposition is ‘Australia’.
Their official title is actually the Australian Indigenous All Stars but then this series has always been peppered with confusion. Its biggest selling point is violence after all, the one thing that could finish it for good.
The hope is a bunch of players, either Aboriginal or of Aboriginal origin, rightly proud to represent their people will provide a contest over seven days (incidentally they will perform a haka-like war-cry before each test).
However, the portents aren’t positive. Coming together for a first collective training session just eight days out from the first test doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. Some of the best Aboriginal talent the AFL has to offer won’t be travelling while the squad’s star player Lance Franklin, likely to be a co-captain, only arrives in Ireland from holiday today and will then leave for home after the first test.
Professionals they may be but just three of the 21-man squad have previous International Rules experience. The fact they are favourites with the bookmakers says more about how well Australian teams have done in Ireland in the past than the potential of the current group.
That’s not to say our own players have taken it to their heart this year. There were some marquee names who, when contacted by manager Paul Earley were not falling over themselves to sign up for the series.
But when — not if — the series dies a death, the culprits will be the Australians. From down under two years ago, this newspaper reported the AFL were giving serious thought to ending their involvement in the series. Their public utterances may have betrayed that view but privately, prominent individuals in their hierarchy felt it was no longer financially viable.
Their own players, not to mention the Australian people, had lost interest in the compromise concept as indicated by the 22,921 and 12,545 attendances in the Melbourne Etihad and Gold Coast Metricon Stadiums.
The International Rules serves a purpose for the GAA and by that we don’t mean providing Gaelic footballers with the highest representative honour. Contrary to what some might say, that will always be wearing a county jersey. We mean it provides a barometer for our own game. From 2008 to 2010, the possession-based style was contrary to the quick release required in International Rules.
It was hardly coincidental that Ireland lost both tests three years ago.
With the better counties now instructed to kick-pass more, Ireland shouldn’t, pardon the pun, run into too much trouble.
That’s all well and good but going back to the best-forgotten Kevin Sheedy years, it’s been the AFL who have been treating the GAA like an inferior dance partner.
The GAA may have had the bigger call on the conditions put in place to ensure the future of the series but then it was a rare occasion when they had the AFL over a barrel.
When the AFL asked for a year’s hiatus in 2009 because of economic difficulties at home (as if there weren’t any in Ireland) in the GAA’s 125th year, the association obliged.
All along, they have continued to entertain a sporting organisation whose contempt or indifference to this partnership has reeked.
It’s the GAA’s own fault that they now find themselves selling a competition that just doesn’t ring true. Put in language the Australians would understand, it’s just not cricket. Sadly the visitors were marked absent from the series long before this year.