GAA considers making Rules series biennial event

MOST players would favour the International Rules series being played every second year, according to GAA director general Liam Mulvihill, who added that such a format would ease the pressure on the GAA’s creaking fixtures calendar.

The GAA and AFL discussed the possibility of making the annual series a biennial event and the Australians were “not hostile” to the idea, according to Mr Mulvihill.

“They saw the positives and negatives of it,” explained Mr Mulvihill. “One of the negatives would be that the continuity would suffer, especially in terms of TV and publicity. It would be more of a stop-start arrangement.”