Ireland recruiting Exiles in Oz for IC11

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Ireland recruiting Exiles in Oz for IC11

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Wednesday, February 16 2011 @ 07:56 pm ACDT

I don't know if any matches were played between an international side and a local club in 08. If any, there might have been one between Japan and Box Hill North. When Japan tour in non-IC years they've played against BHN, Howlong (near Albury) and the Melbourne Vietnamese community team, among others. But I don't know if they play any matches against local opposition when they're here for the IC.

Ideally it would be great for the AFL to organise that kind of thing, but I don't know if they're likely to, nor whether they'd see it as part of their brief.

If I were in the position of the international sides, rather than approaching the AFL, I'd be looking for clubs that have either hosted international players in the past, or maybe the original clubs of any Melburnians who play in their domestic comp.

There is also the issue of whether the international sides want to put their players under the pressure of further matches when they already have to go through a gruelling IC schedule in a short period of time. Some sides might be happy to do this, but others might not. I'm thinking of a side like Finland, who battled to still have 18 fit men on the park by the end of the IC08.

Or I could be completely wrong on this.

Ireland recruiting Exiles in Oz for IC11

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, February 17 2011 @ 12:34 am ACDT

I gather most teams like to play one practice match leading up to the tournament. Coincidentally I spoke briefly with Fiji's coach tonight, and he mentioned how gruelling 5 matches will be in under 2 weeks of IC play.

The Peace Team played a combined Old Brighton Grammarians and AJAX selection just prior to IC08:

http://www.worldfootynews.com/article.php/2008082615263583

And India played China in a warm up match:

http://www.worldfootynews.com/article.php/20080826205705777

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