Reilly: It’s time we got physical

KEVIN REILLY is promising Friday’s first International Rules Test in Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium will be a lot more physical than last year’s fare.

The Meath defender believes both teams showed each other too much respect in Limerick and Dublin last time round and the Tests lacked intensity.

With Kieran McGeeney drafted in as a selector to increase the ferocity in training, sessions such as yesterday’s in the Whitten Oval — the Ireland squad’s first since the majority of them arrived in Australia on Saturday — haven’t been for the faint-hearted.