Pearce Hanley: AFL should choose GAA players on basis of skill, not just athleticism

"I don"t think the draft camps work that well, because they take the sort of player that might test well, but might be a different on-field player.”

Pearce Hanley: AFL should choose GAA players on basis of skill, not just athleticism

By Daragh Ó Conchúir

The AFL season gets under way this weekend but one of the star Irish players involved believes that he would have significantly more contemporaries if the criteria for judging GAA candidates were different.

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