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One Test only confirmed for 2015 series

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Thursday, March 19 2015 @ 01:22 am ACDT

I am one who enjoys the IR series as an opportunity to see international football competiton.
It has been an entertainment success and surprisingl usefull in faciltating competition at amateur level overseas.
Despite both camps at the last year's IR series expressing a desire for a longer series, it seems the GAA are fearful.
They are fearful that AFL has a lot more to gain in playing a match in the Irish stronghold of New York and they are
fearful that if the series is extended then teams might find new ways to win.
The Irish want a game that looks like a traditional GAA game rather than a competitive game of IR.
There has never been any mention of making the game look more Australian even supeficially.
IR could easily be played on an oval, without impacting on the game at all.
Those quaint rules and markings required by rectangular codes could be removed.
We could at least look like Australians, but we wear a foreign style uniform.
(I like the look of the old style collared jumpers).
We add the superficiality of behind posts in IR when in Australia we are constantly defending the notion
of scoring for "missing" when the original intention was as a tie-breaker. In IR it IS a point for missing.
We don't need the behind posts or even the crossbar.
I think it's time to leverage more out of the series.
(This is my opinion only)

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