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AFL and GAA discuss IR series future

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Monday, October 22 2007 @ 02:25 pm ACST

My feelings on the seniors is mixed - I've seen and played enough Gaelic football to know that the rules are fairly well balanced, so any removal of tackling would tip the sport too far away from any resemblance to Australian Football.

As for the juniors, I think the AFL needs that to justify the AIS involvement (Australian Football needs international participation to meet AIS criteria for being involved). Hence the youth squad instead sent to Africa last year, when obviously it's only early days for the game there.

So I think it will be better for the Irish to stop the juniors (less junior poaching), and better for internationalising Aussie Rules - keeps the AFL junior focus on South Africa, and hopefully PNG and NZ too in the near future.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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