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A Third Way: International Rules in the USA

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Wednesday, March 26 2008 @ 11:54 am ACDT

I might just suggest that it is hugely beneficial (for the AFL) that the GAA maintains an Amateur game.

This is the ONLY reason one would contemplate risking unleashing international rules hybrid games on the US. That the GAA IS NOT in a position to take the lead via Gaelic (although it could still happen).

The danger of course is confusing the poor souls in the US. It's hard enough to assert that Rugby (League) is NOT Australian Football. Let alone if we come over & play a game with a round ball on a rectangle pitch and try to assert that our game is played on an oval with an ellipsoid ball and no x-bars or nets. Talk about mixed messages.

Let's just give our game a chance. Better that we do all we can to encourage a junior version of the INternational cup playing 'Aust Footy'.

Kill off the senior IC if need be - replace it perhaps with an inter continental 'super IC'. But - at the junior level - especially should there be kids in the US, or UK, or Canada or whereever who may play the game at school or in a shortened season over summer or whatever - if they have the chance to fair dinkum represent their country on the otherside of the world - and effectively be 'on display' to recruiters - for what to those kids may be just a short window of opportunity for us before they focus on their normal activiities. I reckon that's the way to go - it'd also maximise the likelihood of junior exposed kids to continue into the senior ranks - whilst exposing to Australians that international footy is gradually becoming less about ex-pats meeting for a drink (not that that was or is ever a bad thing).

Forget the 'senior' level stuff in the US. <B>The games with Ireland REALLY only mean anything BECAUSE we have recruited fellows from there. Until we get our first bona fide US/Canadian AFL draftee - then, what's the point?</B>

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