‘The 20 best players’: Irish AFL combine return is on the cards

Geelong executive general manager Andrew Mackie said Kerryman Mark O'Connor is amid "career-best" form for the club. 

Oisin Mullin and Matt Ruane, both from Mayo, during the 2019 AFL Combine in Dublin. Mullin later went on to sign with Geelong Cats. Pic: ©INPHO/Bryan Keane

A return for the Australian Football League-run Combine is in the works, with hopes one will take place in Dublin this December.

Pre-covid, the AFL regularly hosted a European Combine in Ireland. Players went through a series of athletic tests as AFL scouts watched on. James Madden (Dublin), Deividas Uosis (Kerry) and Ross McQuillan (Armagh) all made the move Down Under after impressing at the event.