Shackled Aussies feeling frustration

Angry with themselves, angry with what they claim to be exaggerated reports about their time off in Dromoland Castle and frustrated by their inability to make their greater physicality count.

It may sound like the Australian Indigenous players are at the end of their tether, yet Geelong’s Mathew Stokes and Brisbane’s Ashley McGrath spoke positively about the International Rules Series, and Ireland, in Dublin yesterday morning.

That said, like Colm Begley the day before, the Aussies clearly feel the hybrid game could do with a little less touchy-feely stuff and a bit more crash-bang-wallop when the sides meet again at Croke Park this Saturday.