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Australians maintain edge over Irish

Authored by: Troy Thompson
on Thursday, November 04 2010 @ 09:42 pm ACDT

I'd be interested to know if the Aussie scouts there ran an eye across the Scottish shinty players who played in the curtain raiser against the Irish hurlers? Scottish recruits would not have the same restrictions as currently exist with the Irish.

Australians maintain edge over Irish

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Friday, November 05 2010 @ 06:26 pm ACDT

I don't reckon Shinty would be a likely source of recruits - it's a bit closer to hockey in terms of gameplay, as the play is mostly on the ground - whereas hurling the ball spends a lot more time in the air and the gameplay gets a bit more like Aussie Rules or Gaelic Football.

I've heard Irishmen say the trick to beating the Scots at compromise hurling/shinty is keep the ball in the air, whereas the Scots say the trick to beating the Irish is to keep the ball on the ground.

Also, hurlers (eg Setanta) who've come to the AFL generally also already have a gaelic football background in addition to hurling. Shinty players I'm guessing would be more likely to have played soccer or rugby.

But I guess anything's possible, there might be a natural athlete running around who caught someone's eye.

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