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Replying To Fionn: "Without jeopardising a move, can the player not say to the Aussie club - ok I will sign for you but I want you to give a Donation to my home club for all the efforts they have put in to get me to this point... Be it 10k, 25k, 50k or whatever... Perhaps too simplistic a view, but surely it is time for this to happen... Especially with a talent like Kobe who was being looked at by more than 1 Aussie club. Or if for example - if I get to sign a pro contract down the line - then my home club is given a Donation or whatever.... This money would be a drop in the ocean for these Aussie clubs," ....and why should he do that? Would you ask all GAA players who sign for soccer and rugby clubs to do the same. ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 977 - 16/11/2025 01:23:58 2644682 Link
Replying To Kerry15: "Oh come on most of them wouldn't have even been inter county footballers. Also it's completely different a young fella who is talented at football and rugby or soccer going growing up and choosing the other one compared to a top GAA player being recruited for Australia because of his Gaelic football ability." Why is it different? Its only different because you might be half expecting it. The end result is still the same. Well actually its not the same, far more lads come home to play GAA after they finish up with professional AFL than do after they finish playing professional soccer or rugby. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18997 - 16/11/2025 08:59:24 2644691 Link
Replying To ORIELMAN85: "Now Genius,how are you going to do that. I have coached young lads for 30+ years and I would be delighted if one of them ever got the opportunity to go play Aussie Rules professionally." Exactly my attitude Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18997 - 16/11/2025 13:50:37 2644727 Link
Replying To Kerry15: "Oh come on most of them wouldn't have even been inter county footballers. Also it's completely different a young fella who is talented at football and rugby or soccer going growing up and choosing the other one compared to a top GAA player being recruited for Australia because of his Gaelic football ability." 100% Kevin Moran was an exceptional gaelic footballer though.Outside of Dublin probably very few were too unhappy to see him leave Dublin GAA for Man Utd and he even combined both for a brief spell. But he had played League of Ireland soccer before he went to Man Utd, with his commerce degree and Celtic crosses in his pocket. Some man for one man. Apologies for the tangent! A player won't be missing hurling or football training because his AFL team have a championship game. If he goes to professional soccer or rugby it's because he's played either. He'll be just as big as a loss or more to the soccer or rugby team as a hurling or football team. But AFL probably scouted him for his gaelic football skills. They scout in other ball sports too. Conor Nash had potential for Meath and Leinster rugby. But he still had to learn the AFL game when he got there. Some learn it better than others and most of them can't make the cut. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8496 - 16/11/2025 14:29:06 2644738 Link
Replying To Kerry15: "Oh come on most of them wouldn't have even been inter county footballers. Also it's completely different a young fella who is talented at football and rugby or soccer going growing up and choosing the other one compared to a top GAA player being recruited for Australia because of his Gaelic football ability." Can recall at least 4 County Minors in my county who were lost to a professional soccer career and 2 more to professional rugby careers. Was delighted for them all. ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 977 - 16/11/2025 17:11:50 2644784 Link
The Roos won their 27th straight game, completing an unbeaten season with Cork's Erika O'Shea, Fermanagh's Blaithín Bogue and Meath star Vikki Wall all claiming silverware in front of a capacity crowd of 12,741 at IKON Park, while Offaly's Amy Gavin Mangan was included on the squad's emergency list. There was disappointment however for Dublin's Jennifer Dunne, Tipperary's Orla O'Dwyer and Neasa Dooley from Kildare as Brisbane's challenge faded badly in the second quarter. Crazy to think 7 Irish ladies were involved in the final. it's a massive loss to the game in Ireland. Kew (Galway) - Posts: 296 - 01/12/2025 10:35:18 2646598 Link
Replying To Kew: "The Roos won their 27th straight game, completing an unbeaten season with Cork's Erika O'Shea, Fermanagh's Blaithín Bogue and Meath star Vikki Wall all claiming silverware in front of a capacity crowd of 12,741 at IKON Park, while Offaly's Amy Gavin Mangan was included on the squad's emergency list. There was disappointment however for Dublin's Jennifer Dunne, Tipperary's Orla O'Dwyer and Neasa Dooley from Kildare as Brisbane's challenge faded badly in the second quarter. Crazy to think 7 Irish ladies were involved in the final. it's a massive loss to the game in Ireland." 13k at the Australian showcase shows how little interest there is in the game. I wonder how they can even pay the salaries alalalalalum (USA) - Posts: 283 - 01/12/2025 14:25:07 2646649 Link
Replying To alalalalalum: "13k at the Australian showcase shows how little interest there is in the game. I wonder how they can even pay the salaries" Interesting. 48K attended the LGFA final in Croke park. There seems to be a lot more online/social media presence for the AFLW though with a focus on individual players and stats. liam500 (Wicklow) - Posts: 234 - 01/12/2025 15:18:18 2646655 Link
The standard in the Australian game is far inferior to the Ladies senior game here, it's no wonder clubs there are so keen to have the Irish girls playing. The fact games over there are shown on tv gives the impression of a high standard but it's not. Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 2591 - 01/12/2025 16:15:05 2646666 Link
Replying To Claretandblue: "The standard in the Australian game is far inferior to the Ladies senior game here, it's no wonder clubs there are so keen to have the Irish girls playing. The fact games over there are shown on tv gives the impression of a high standard but it's not." The mens game in Australia isnt much better alalalalalum (USA) - Posts: 283 - 01/12/2025 18:59:47 2646691 Link
Tasmania looks to have got the go ahead to get their club set up so that will prob mean more Irish players on the radar alalalalalum (USA) - Posts: 283 - 05/12/2025 11:12:11 2647114 Link
The AFL wants to introduce Women's representative football in 2026. The two avenues being explored: - Australia v Ireland (39 Irish W players last year) - State of Origin (VIC v WA/VIC v SA) Late July/August or mens byes in June are the preferred slots. Kew (Galway) - Posts: 296 - 18/02/2026 00:27:34 2657064 Link
Replying To Kew: "The AFL wants to introduce Women's representative football in 2026. The two avenues being explored: - Australia v Ireland (39 Irish W players last year) - State of Origin (VIC v WA/VIC v SA) Late July/August or mens byes in June are the preferred slots." Its easy for them to do that - They can keep it as AWFL too, no need for international rules tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1720 - 18/02/2026 13:00:41 2657121 Link
I wonder would the Irish ladies put it up to them? Is there a good spread of positions shared by Irish girls? I know a lot of the fellas end up at full back combo (Galway) - Posts: 33 - 18/02/2026 16:09:22 2657173 Link
Replying To combo: "I wonder would the Irish ladies put it up to them? Is there a good spread of positions shared by Irish girls? I know a lot of the fellas end up at full back" https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/aflw-2025-round-11-talking-points-possible-australia-vs-ireland-exhibition-fixture-in-2026-state-of-origin-north-melbourne-kangaroos-vs-hawthorn-hawks-aileen-gilroy-the-w-debrief/news-story/a4669cc8f99c176672153017f2c3d1bb There is a fox report of the team Ireland could field. Ireland will be stronger maybe midfield and forwards Kew (Galway) - Posts: 296 - 18/02/2026 19:55:35 2657212 Link
Replying To combo: "I wonder would the Irish ladies put it up to them? Is there a good spread of positions shared by Irish girls? I know a lot of the fellas end up at full back" I'd say they'd be very competitive. The depth in the women's game in Australia isn't great. It's still relatively new, and the playing base is quite small. Intercounty LGFA players are coming from a stronger and more established base, and as a result have an advantage currently. Cora Staunton said the talent pool over there was still fairly shallow. Unlike the men's game which has been around for well over a century. Gaelic footballers are competing against a much bigger pool of players in a sport that has been professional for many decades. I'd expect the women's side of it to develop fairly quickly though. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2744 - 18/02/2026 22:58:46 2657230 Link
The GPA (mens and Womens) need to include membership for minor intercounty footballers and upwards. Sign them up to a "contract" where they are contracted to the organisation. As part of that deal, they get specialist S&C advice - a GPS and access to the information on it. Training on how to use the information for self improvement. A bit of sponsorship etc. Should an Aussie rules team come and offer a contract - the GPA provide advice (free) and help negotiate the deal for the player (helping drive up the players asking price - particularly if armed with detailed player performance data and historical negotiating knowledge). Negotiate a % of earnings/singing on fee/future advertising rights (like a premier league agent). The GPA would then have an ongoing income from the 70 odd players currently over there - which they can give to the Clubs who trained those player from age 6-18 as well as funding the S&C /GPS costs for the next batch of kids. This "everyman for himself" attitude leaves everyone with nothing and the player with less than he/she could be getting tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1720 - 26/02/2026 15:45:00 2658762 Link
New AFL club starting up in 2028 the Tasmanian devils and they won't be limited to the same number of international players as the rest so will likely see some ladies and men picked up from Ireland. Kew (Galway) - Posts: 296 - 26/02/2026 20:41:44 2658799 Link
Replying To tirawleybaron: "The GPA (mens and Womens) need to include membership for minor intercounty footballers and upwards. Sign them up to a "contract" where they are contracted to the organisation. As part of that deal, they get specialist S&C advice - a GPS and access to the information on it. Training on how to use the information for self improvement. A bit of sponsorship etc. Should an Aussie rules team come and offer a contract - the GPA provide advice (free) and help negotiate the deal for the player (helping drive up the players asking price - particularly if armed with detailed player performance data and historical negotiating knowledge). Negotiate a % of earnings/singing on fee/future advertising rights (like a premier league agent). The GPA would then have an ongoing income from the 70 odd players currently over there - which they can give to the Clubs who trained those player from age 6-18 as well as funding the S&C /GPS costs for the next batch of kids. This "everyman for himself" attitude leaves everyone with nothing and the player with less than he/she could be getting" How can a player have a contract with an Association? And why should clubs get money because a player chooses to go to Australia? Noone at our club is coaching children expecting a profit. And we all know there's every chance they might not stay playing for the club as adults. Many don't. If they get a hurling or football scholarship from a college should we demand a cut off them? How about if they get a good job in Dublin? Or London? Or Germany? Or wherever? And move to a different club where they end up working. This happened to our club several times over the years. Lads who played for the club until they were young adults transferred to clubs in Dublin and London. Some were Senior intercounty players. We ended up getting relegated to Intermediate. Should we be paid a cut of their wages? Or a signing fee from the clubs they went to? Absolutely we shouldn't. Never heard such nonsense. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18997 - 26/02/2026 21:14:30 2658803 Link
Replying To Kew: "New AFL club starting up in 2028 the Tasmanian devils and they won't be limited to the same number of international players as the rest so will likely see some ladies and men picked up from Ireland." You see commenters bemoaning the lack of quality of AFL as it stands. A new team will spread it even thinner. While it is proper that Tasmania has an AFL football team it seems there are only about 16 Tasmanian players on the professional books of other AFL clubs currently. That doesn't say a whole pile for the health of the game on that island, which has a population of 600,000. They definitely will be coming calling to these shores. ohwow (Leitrim) - Posts: 61 - 27/02/2026 13:51:42 2658889 Link