AFL - Australia v Ireland International Rules Highlights 2015 

Michael Beast how often they train doesn't change what I said. They are unpaid amateurs who all have regular jobs. Very very few players go on to play other sports professionally.

So am I. And i agree they are elite athletes but professional means you get paid, thats the definition of the word and I dont recall a paycheque!

go on the Irish

Uncle Two Tone G but the Irish play soccer and rugby so it's 2 sports v 1

Uncle Two Tone G love of the game and nothing gets women like playing county

Gaelic football isn't really confusing

Soccer is the greatest sport on Earth and is massive in over 240 countries. Every country on Earth loves Soccer. Afl is only big and relevant in 4 Australian states. Its a minority sport in Qld, NSW and ACT. Soccer will be the number 1 sport in Australia by 2050 and every country on Earth by 2100 itshf

@@mufc3316 You seem to post this on every Aussie Rules video on RU-vid. Why? What's your problem? If Aussie Rules is so irrelevant, why go to such lengths to slang off at it? Did an Australian go off with your lunchbox?

@@mufc3316 Based Soccer bro.

@@timothyjames6412 he often isse to comment like this in cricket videos

And none of them are paid in Ireland

noone plays gaa professionally, they all have other jobs, gaa doesnt pay

The only pros on the irish would be playing AFL.Gaelic football is amateur

The only difference between our amateur intercounty players and your AFL players is not the amount of training or quality of training its recovery.Intercounty players can not recover in the same way because they have to work.Aswell as that intercounty players also play for their local club aswell as county.Some play for their county in a few different grades and do the same at their clubs.The AFL looks after just one sport whereas the GAA also has hurling so some counties have dual players who represent their county at both sports

Michael Beast Well its rare but it still happens not as much as in the old days,but they are still notable examples podge collins of clare and the women you have rhena buckley and brid corkery of cork.The women train just as hard as the men.Nowadays its rarer in the past you had many players sean og o halpin and his brother setanta jimmy barry murphy.It is becoming thing of the past,but its a part of the GAA which is very important because it is a multisport organisation committed to the fostering of all irish pastimes, Away from the intercounty scene at club level there is a very interesting development whereby a GAA club have won provincial championships in three codes football hurling and camogie)ladirs hurling) with the same team except for camogie of course from a village of 250.They will now go on to contest the all ireland club championships.If they win through to the final it will be very interesting because both finals are on the same day

Even though Aussie rules isn’t the most commercialised sport, it is highly professional and AFL players are top notch athletes. They’re all in incredible shape, comparable to soccer players, and they all need to have a high level of skill, being able to catch/mark the ball, kick the ball with accuracy, punch the ball accurately, carry the ball without taking too many steps without bouncing. And all that with enormous pace and little time. Started watching the AFL just recently, I am really impressed.

@@LomuHabanaactually i would go so far as to say they need to be even fitter due to using their upper bodies for handballs and tackling and also run further due to having a bigger field

@@ElonMuskTheFueler I compared them in terms of general fitness and “leanness”. Both can’t permit having any unnecessary fat cells and have to have solid muscles resilience. But you are right, AFL player need on top of that even more athleticism and physicality. Tackling (especially since tackling the legs is illegal, unlike in Rugby) and hand passing (they are able to give hand passes/punches over distances longer than 20 meters, insane) is one thing, but don’t forget marking/contesting. They really need to have good leg muscles to be able to jump high and being physically strong to be able to use their bodies in the context. The combination of general fitness/stamina/running ability, strength, strength endurance, athleticism and agility is probably unmatched by any sport. Just incredible on all levels what “footy” players have to bring to the table. If the sport had been developed in England or the US instead of Australia/Victoria, Aussie rules would be a big/global sport.

@@LomuHabana haha yeah i got what you were saying i just felt like saying what i said. Both sports have incredible athletes with insane general fitness

Do you think Britain and the USA could field teams and make this a really international game.

@@tomkeegan3782 Right. I just found this sport and find it beautiful and fascinating. The pace and flow are very upbeat with a high degree of athleticism and precision needed to play at a high level. It feels like it's what football ought to be. I'm an American, and I love our football, but the pace of this is just so much more free. You lose a lot of the designed plays and tactical nature, but I see that as a welcome trade. Hopefully some colleges pick it up or leagues form so I could watch regularly.

@@UKCrazy007 it's much the same as Gaelic football, that's played in USA too. There might be a club near you. (GAA)

Absolutely, I feel like the compromise rules are a lot closer to GAA than AFL, but I prefer Gaelic anyway lol. Since they added the mark rule it’s pretty close, but the tackling gives defenses a way to stop a solid drive dead, and those are pretty exciting too, with the offset being you see more plays for possession in Gaelic. I’ll definitely look to see if there’s any GAA in my area, but eastern KY is pretty set in its ways, most people’s sport of choice is basketball or cornhole.

Even though it is theoretically easier and a good choice for this game, it is still hard to adapt to a round ball if you usual play with a Sherrin. So the GAA players most definitely have an advantage here. The advantage is of course way less pronounced as the advanced the Aussies would have if they played with a Sherrin.

Timestamp?

Also what's a sqaureball

Also what's a squareball?

@@DBB314 do you still need the answer buddy

@@DBB314 A squareball is when an offensive player enters the penalty square or goal square before the ball or now i think its before the ball is kicked. Its actually me who made that comment using a different username.

Let’s just say the Irish are better at the game and Australia are better athletes

Watch Dublin vs Mayo (all Ireland final) that’s an entertaining one for ya

Totally wrong but okay

Mendax how is it wrong

NoSenseAtAll T I know you spastic what are you talking about

@@nosenseatallt1764 A ++++++++ 🤣🤣

@@Tige4 I was referring to chubby comment. AFL is literally Australias most popular national sport

Id love to see what its like now. GAA training and fitness levels etc have gotten pretty close to professional these days

I guess they train some weeks before the game

@tinymahuta stamp

not anymore mate lol big up the welsh

third

FireDiamond also rugby and afl balls are different

I don't think they would necessarily cope with a Sherrin. I played rugby league and union all my life and tried AFL at 25 and particularly the handballing with an AFL ball is one of the hardest skills I've ever had to learn of any sport. It's such a hard ball to hit with your hand. It even hurts kicking the thing.

They were at then end of 2018, since then England and Wales have steam rolled them and they struggled against Italy.

@@LeMerch For people that haven't seen either Aussie Rules or Gaelic Football (of which this is highly likely considering the combined population of the main 2 countries these sports are played in is 30 million which is 0.4% of the global population), football & rugby is a very good collective comparison and much more likely to be understood.

@@mattnorris7124 There are no elements of rugby here

@@tank_0251 Kicking for the posts. Although with a different ball.

@@tank_0251 Tackling, post goals, handball, passing, all fairly similar

Keep on following my friend it is a great sport :)

Here is one more arkadas. Went to the Brisbane Lions this year too 😁

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Ah okay, hey greetings from China! Is this the Gaelic rule that they are playing with a round ball rather a rugby shaped ball?

Pls explain further..

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Lol

why did they say darren commenter is dumb af

Daniel K

D S it is not Darren Fletcher it's Dustin Fletcher lol

WTF are you talking about?

Faze Girl wtf u on about

gaelicfootball and aussie rules soccer has nothing to do with it

There is a steps rule but not sure how many in this hybrid game, in GAA (Irish) its 4,

Sorta like Gaelic, not the same though

james yes that is exactly what it is

Australia plays rudgy, footy and basketball. Only one of those sports involves a round ball, of course we would comment on it.

Even though GAA is not professional, they are still very good athletes who commit almost as strongly to their sport as professionals do. And in terms of the game, they have a point. A round ball is indeed something completely different.

Conor mc manus ? BERNARD BROGAN?

Maybe you need to get out more? Lol

@@hudsonjaxson8877 Another triggered aussie 😆

@@hudsonjaxson8877 mate pls don't give us a bad name

+borgy017 It's only one match a year.

Wasn't there 2 last year in Perth?

+borgy017 no there was not two matches last year. Also it was the Australians who decided to reduce the series to one game.

2 matches next year

Both games are played with a Gaelic football yes but GAA doesn’t have marks, wrap tackles and only has two goalposts (3 including crossbar)

It is slightly unfair, but would be much more unfair to make the Gaelic players kick a Sherrin

This is a compromise-rules exhibition sport called 'International Rules Football' played between Ireland and Australian, that creates a hybrid of both countries' national sports; Gaelic and Australian Rules football. Both sports naturally have three main things in common; 1) No offside rule 2) Throwing is illegal in both sports and 3) Running with the ball requires one to bounce it every so many metres. This means while most of the rules have little in common, they share a similiar 'spirit' of play: fast, free-flowing running, robust body contact, and distance kicking of the ball.

thats why its called the ireland team

+trinsicity, that's true.

People are complaining about the nature of international rules favouring the Irish, but other then that it was well played

Waste of time only 2 countries are any good.

Yes

Hurling adds the hockey stick, check it out.

@@cygil1 Been there done that. Someone forgot to tell the Aussies that if you kick it into the soccer net you get more points.

It’s a mixture of AFL and GAA to promote both sports as they’re somewhat similar

its basically a mix of irish and australian rules to make a slightly altered version of gaelic

The Best it's a mix of Gaelic football and Aussie rules

But they are pros?

Tiernan 1 yeah of the AFL, not this sport!!!!

Croke Park

rolomurray thanks mate

luke tyson13 Ok, I'm a completly noob in that sport... What do you think are the skills diference between gaelic football goalie and football goalie? Because seems very similar (the job of the goalie)

Ktbk keepers in Gaelic have a far further kick as the GAA pitch is much longer than a football pitch

A soccer goalkeeper is just a shot stopper where as a gaelic keeper has more of a role in distribution and maintaining posessionThe game is much more high scoring so the more possession you have the more you score usually.Important to note that while this game has elements of gaelic football its not gaelic football this is a hybrid between gaelic and AFL kbk

Soccer and AFL

@@atrainjr7754 no , Gaelic football and AFL. It is literally a mix of these 2 sports

Lol, it's neither