Irish warm up with a win over Vics
Contributed by: Troy Thompson Monday, November 17 2014 @ 09:05 pm ACDT
A Victorian selection (mostly VFL players with some VAFA players thrown in) played the Irish International Rules team in a warm up for Ireland ahead of their Test match against Australia in Perth this coming weekend. While the Australian team got together in Sydney to train with the round ball, the Irish made the most of the unseasonal cool wet conditions at Sandringham (a suburb of Melbourne). While there was a contest provided by the Victorians the Irish experience with the round ball allowed them to get plenty of scoring of practice including 9 goals in the net.
The Victorian squad only came together for the first time a week ago and were not actually able to train with the goal configuration used for the International rule format. The Irish attack on the goalkeeper was brutal and will be something the Australian team will need to be wary of.
The Victorians managed to outscore Ireland in the final quarter as the Irish with the result in the bag no doubt already had their focus on a Test win in Perth next Saturday.
Details of International Rules Match played at Trevor Barker Oval, Sandringham (provided by Michael Robinson)
Victoria 0-1-3, 0-1-5, 0-3-5, 1-5-6(27)
Ireland 4-2-1, 6-6-5, 9-9-8, 9-11-13(100)
SCORERS
Victoria: Cockie 9(1-1-0), Clouston, Featherston 4(0-1-1), Bolton, Pinwill 3(0-1-0), O'Sullivan, Rippon, Davies, Owen 1(0-0-1)
Ireland: C.O'Neill 30(4-1-3), Murphy 20(2-2-4), O'Shea 13(1-2-1), Cavanagh 9(1-1-0), Cregg 9(0-3-0), P.Hanley 6(1-0-0), Munnelly 5(0-1-2), Boyle 3(0-1-0), Begley, Hughes, Moran 1(0-0-1)
Crowd: About 1500
Curtain Raiser match
VAFA 0-3-4 0-4-6 0-7-13 3-7-13(52)
Aust GAA 0-1-0 0-8-3 0-8-4 1-13-6(51)
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