Irish go for skill, but with controversial rugby tackle coach

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Irish go for skill, but with controversial rugby tackle coach

Authored by: John Enright
on Thursday, October 09 2008 @ 09:22 pm ACDT

It will be interesting to see if the GAA or AFL will follow through and actually suspend a player if warranted. I can see a player(dunno which side) being suspended after the first game - just to make an example of him.

I think the Boylan has again made errors in his background staff - a rugby player will show one kind of tackle when the player is coming straight at you... what can he teach when the player is running away from you. I watched an Ireland training session before the last series and was shocked by the training they were doing... it was essentially a Gaelic training session with behind posts. There was no tackling drill done until the very end of the session - kind of just a courtesy gesture towards tackling.

Ireland are going to get beaten again this year... I simply cannot see them beating an aussie side on home ground with the management team they currently have. The aussies have Jim Stynes who played Gaelic Football and understands the mentality of Gaelic Footballers - Ireland need to bring in an aussie coach/player/official to help them. Bring in Sheedy - that would make interesting headlines !!

As for Begley having an injury free season - who did the research for the Irish paper... The boy was injured for 2 thirds of the season....

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John Enright
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John Enright
http://www.arfli.com

Irish go for skill, but with controversial rugby tackle coach

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, October 09 2008 @ 09:47 pm ACDT

With Kennelly helping Ireland, perhaps he'll give them more of an Aussie Rules understanding - though with his shoulder he presumably won't be doing too much demonstrating of tackling.

It will be good to see Begley playing something closer to his original sport. Frankly I'm not a huge fan of the series, but already I'm getting withdrawals from footy on TV and my local media has turned its attention to and is carrying on about soccer which just leaves me cold I'm afraid. Bring on the IR.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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