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Authored by: Niels Schønnemann
on Friday, December 14 2007 @ 06:36 am ACDT

I wonder if the number actually do swell to the extend of 30 or so irish playing regular AFL football, if there would be a future for an all-stars game (or true international) between Ireland and Australia in stead of the international rules series. Perhaps even exchanging the end-of-season AFL show game in London with that.?

Australia vs Ireland

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, December 14 2007 @ 12:26 pm ACDT

Hi Niels. Yes this was discussed on another thread recently, with mixed opinions. IF the Irish keep coming, maybe we could see a true Australian Football international between Australia and Ireland. Probably 20 to 30 players to select from won't be enough to field a winning team against an All-Australian side, but playing for their country, I'd expect them to be strongly competitive and well worth watching.

Or in 10 years Australia versus the World, with Irish, South Africans, Papuans? Worth watching, though I'm not sure it would grab the imagination of the public like playing against a single country would. However it emerges, just being able to stage Australia versus someone would provide a good opportunity to showcase the sport in Australia and the world, e.g. Australia versus Ireland, 3 matches, 1 at the MCG, 1 in Ireland if they could secure a decent cricket oval, 1 in London or Florida.

All this of course is highly speculative and dreamy, but does seem to be slowly working out.

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