Redkaa I wish there was a league for this. As a football and AFL supporter, i can't get enough of International Rules. Takes the best elements from both sports and blends them into something really special

Daniel S I totally agree, but you do realize that this is actually a combination of AFL and Gaelic Football (not soccer), right? Unless by "football" you are referring to Gaelic football, in which case my comment is completely unnecessary lol.

dexistence19 no he means that Gaelic is a mixture between afl and soccer I think, he obviously doesn't know that international rules is different to Gaelic

Redkaa yeah but make it Aussie rules

Redkaa

Made my day that comment did :D

Campbell Bryant hahahah

Chicken.

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@@mufc3316 if you respond to my comment. I will become a soccer fan and tell everyone how great you are

Well its only played once a year between two national teams and two different sports.The Irish team are gaelic footballers and the aussies are Aussie rules players.The game they play is a mixture of the two sports.Soccer is not apart of it though,but gaelic football has characteristics of soccer thats what you see here

Watch the Afl

Watch afl

njlopez FA . Search KZfaq for, What is AFL? It explains some basic rules and is a great insight for a newcomer.

Wait till you see an actual AFL game!

Kevin Meyer Honestly, it's the future of both codes internationally if they would get over certain issues and export this game ruthlessly to all corners of the globe. There are so many expats that play both codes in every land, America particularly and square fields are much more common worldwide. Both leagues would do well to turn this game into a more competitive version of IRB sevens, IMO.

Square fields,but much smaller than a gaa pitch.A GAA pitch.You could put too soccer pitchs side by side.The AFL promotes aussie rules and thts the game they want played internationally not this bastard game.The GAA has two sports which they want to promote not this game.Promoting this game is only going to confuse people it will not promote the games.People will not want to play gaelic or aussie rules ,but this hybrid instead which is fine,but its not what these associations are for.The problem for the GAA is two fold is it can only do it with football not hurling so hurling would be forgotten about second the players would have to be full time if they are going to play abroad and theGAA is amateur and prides itself on being amateur

I'd like to see Americans play it. Their version is sort of similar

Soccer and rugby have nothing to do with it.Its a hybrid of gaelic football and australian football so the top players in each code could represent their country since neither is played outside their countries at a high level

Kevin Meyer soccer?

This is not gaelic football its a crossover between Gaelic and aussie rules.Search for all ireland football final 2017 thats the world cup of gaelic football even though its just ireland dias

Dias . Entirely different to Gaelic football. Check out KZfaq for, What is AFL. Great explanation for a new comer.

Cry more. Can’t accept the fact that another nation outlasts you in a sport that you are very passionate about

It's 90% Gaelic football so Ireland should be more dominant

Afl players picked this sport up in a couple weeks and beat you at it 😂

5:32 and it clearly went out of play and all

charlie toon watching mike pyke and the sydney swans right now in fact :)

charlie toon watching mike pyke and the sydney swans right now in fact :)

Its gaelic football not gaelic rugby.Soccer has nothing to do with

I too would love to see Canada USA and Britain field teams in this, it would then be more international. I've also seen some comments from Argentina, maybe they'd join in too!

Our boys would adapt to a sherrin handy enough I believe, most Irish young lads are multidisciplinary in that they play a wide variety of sports into teenage years so a lot would have rugby backgrounds as well (given their sizes mainly as backs). Yep I know larger footie, but not too dissimilar in kicking actions nowadays (a lot players use Aussie Rule kicking style at every level now). I think we've seen that with the AFL Irish imports, it's not the footie that is the major adjustment it's changing to a professional mindset where your sport is your job and the discipline's required. Fitness/Stamina is the major issue at IR level for us though, three weeks together pre matches is not enough to make up the gap. The main barrier 'amateurism' is a bastion of the GAA, so would need a fundamental change in attitude at the top level of Gaelic Games to see that happen. Would love to see it happen, but there are major potential downsides to that happening. I don't know how familiar you are with GAA structure in Ireland. Basically kids play at school, for local clubs, then their native county (of which there are 32 in Island of Ireland). Even in the amateur era there are dominant counties in both Gaelic Football and Hurling. If the game went professional then these counties would continue to dominate and also demand most of the revenue which over time would mean the collapse of the games in weaker counties.

So is the top division of that like the third tier of Rules? AFL, VFL and then VAFA...

+Ronan Byrne Professionalism on a full time basis is a non runner there isn't the money.Take your average county board with an average budget of 1million they would have to pay the average industrial wage to a squad of 25 players of 40000 euro so there entire budget would have to go on paying the players.Only 4 counties at most could do this.Yes you could have semi professionalism and a match fee for the all ireland finals.You have dual counties to consider as well not even dublin could field professional teams in football and hurling

+ijk240695 Intercounty Gaelic footballers are not paid,but otherwise they train like professionals so they would probably completely obliterate a vafa team

Ronan Byrne Completely agree, As an Australian it's a bit unfair when professional Aussie Rules players put out your full strength squad while you Irish lads actually have part time jobs. Still it's great to watch a wierd mix of World Football (soccer), Aussie Football, Gaelic Football and rugby

Watch a sport called hurlin. It's 1 of 2 Irish sports and it's physical as well as being the fastest ball game in the world

6 points for a goal in the back of the net (Can be kicked or thrown), 3 points for a kick over the crossbar but between the posts, 1 point for a kick between the goalposts and the point post.

+Julian Przesmycki This isn't afl its a combination of gaelic football and australian football

stoney71 yeah but it's still the best

JULZA 21 L

N.F.L. is garbage.

If it was an all soccer team they would get smashed.

Jezus Dibble that is why I said spread all the players out.. :)

Jay Kay82 I don't think soccer players could handle it.

Jay Kay82 Sorry, I know they can't handle it.

Jezus Dibble haha agreed but conidering they're are athletic they may survive

He would be on Ireland since he is an Irish citizen.

Dustin Fletcher

It was very good,because it was an aussie.In gaelic football you can not pick the ball up with your hands,so that pick up is fairly common

Yes but no soccer player's contract will allow them to play for either the GAA or the AFL. They wouldn't even be released for national soccer if it wasn't a FIFA requirement.

Because nobody knows its a hybrid sport of gaelic and australian football unless you are familiar with one of these its hard to explain it.I recommend looking at gaelic irish football rules explained by ninh ly and his australian football video.Basically the ball is a gaelicfootball(not soccer) the field is gaelic the goal posts are basically gaelic ,but they are two extra posts there aussie.The tackle is aussie the mark is aussie the playing time is a mixture of the two.They are a few other rules from neither code.Handling rules are mostly aussie and travelling rules are both.They change the rules quite often

Dimp 992 Gaelic Football. Mix between Soccer and AFL.

BreezyAustralian And a bit of rugby.

ok

Dimp 992 Thats not true. This is mix between Gaelic Football and Aussie Rules Football. The national sports of Ireland and Australia.

+Dimp 992 International Rules Football (a.k.a. Compromise Rules Football). It's a combination of Gaelic Football and Australian Football, and is only played once a year (between an Irish team which usually play Gaelic and an Australian team which usually play AFL), so none of the players are that familiar with the game. It's an oddity for both teams, but they're coming to it from different directions and have different strengths.

If one goes over the soccer net it is 3 points in soccer net is 6 points and the other side goals are just 1 point

If the ball goes into the net (like the soccer goal) its 6 points and is called a "goal". If it goes over the crossbar (the goal) with the net but between the 2 middle poles, its 3 points and is called an "over". If it goes between the outer and inner poles on both sides its 1 point and is called a "behind". Anything outside of the those poles is worth nothing and is called a "wide"

GAELIC NOT FECKIN SOCCER

The Aussies tend to punch too many Irish heads

Covid. We were meant to have a series in 2020 and 2022, but they were postponed. Haven't heard anything since then though.

No it's international rules

Most of the Australian squad finished AFL 3 months ago and have been overseas on 'end of year' rec leave. The Australians came together one week before this game with many of them never used a round ball before. It was obvious that the Irish read the ball in the air better than the Aussies and I'm sure if the oval ball was used the reverse would be the case.

KRW1612 Exactly

For austrailia the goal keeper was Dustin Fletcher > Bomber legend

It's a rep match solely between the AFL and GAA - they're not going to recruit anyone outside of either league for it.

Old man

GAA had only one Irish afl player from brisbane

AFL doesn't have a goalkeeper so he's just an outfield player. Paddy O'Rourke who's in nets for Ireland plays in goal for his county but outfield for his club. Why would they 'recruit' soccer goalkeepers, this is a match between the Irish Gaelic football team and the Australian AFL team.

GAELIC FOOTBALL NET

Its a gaelic net

+Nathan Neville I know now

Marchellino gerald The soccer players won't make it past the first quarter.

BreezyAustralian wut..... football (soccer) requires way higher fitness than afl/rugby

SSJ32Gohan Talking about the tackles.

BreezyAustralian well then it depends which country the soccer players are from. australian soccer players would handle AFL fine. maybe not asians or mexicans

SSJ32Gohan No, Aussie soccer players won't handle it fine. It's like a hockey player playing rugby. They're not cut out for the sport. If soccer players dive in soccer, then imagine what they'd do in afl.

No its gaelic football and aussie footy not feckin soccer.Why would soccer need to team up with the AFL.Soccer is damn boring but it has 100s of national teams and is the most popular sport in the world gaelic football isn't neither is aussie rules so they have to invent a hybrid in order to have international competition

x7 its gaelic football soccer has not to do with it

Dude Its soccer and FOOTY GET IT RIGHT

Mixture between Gaelic Football (Ireland) and Aussie rules ( Australia), just a small friendly they do some years

Half Irish Gaelic Football, and half Australian Rules Football. (AFL) Australia vs Ireland every year, I think in November or December.

Okay firstly it isn't gaelic football. Its called international rules. But basketball??? Whot

rorylr When i posted this i was making a joke

Luciano Olmos yeah i responding more to the other person

No its a mix of gaelic football and australian football.

The Irish players are amateurs and the Australians are professionals so the Aussies should be fitter and stronger. The only rules that benefit Gaelic football are the shape of the ball and the fact that you can score goals. The heavy tackles are alien to Gaelic football.

Seán Leahy I see more than just that, but eh.

Josh Henderson Australia also has a bigger pick. The game was close anyway.

Seán Leahy Yeah, but Ireland leads it all.

Josh Henderson What do you mean?

+Andre Nah, more at 2:54

+Harry Barnett I yelled it nearly the whole game XD Some of them I was just like BAAALLL!! COME ON YOU FUCKIN UMP!

That would be defeating the purpose of the excercise.There would be no point to the whole excercise if you started including players from sports that already have loads of international competition.

ninjo thats incredibly stupid.This is a crossover between the gaelic footballers of ireland and the aussie rules footballers soccer has nothing to with it

Don't you have a goalie in Gaelic Football??