What are the differences between Aussie Rules and Irish football?

Question

And what are the rules of the game that Ireland and Australia play against each other?

Answer 1

the goal posts are different with irish they have cross bar through the middle two posts and the goalie so to speak plays a more diffencive position as their points i think are based differently depending if you get under,over the bar

Answer 2

Australian Rules uses an oval football similar to rugby whereas Gaelic football played in Ireland uses a round ball. In Gaelic football, you have unders where you kick the goals through the net similar to soccer and overs wher you kick it over the net. Australian Rules has goals where you kick it between the posts and behinds where you narrowly miss. International rules uses a Gaelic football and has unders worth six points, overs worth 3 and behinds worth 1.

The tackling in Australian Rules is tougher than that allowed in Gaelic football. Australian rules is played on ovel fields while Gaelic football is played on a rectangular field. International matches allow fiercer tackles while it uses a rectangular field.

Australian rules lasts for 80 minutes while Gaelic football lasts for 70. International rules football is played in four quarters of twenty minutes same as the Australian code. Gaelic football has 15 players on the field including a goalkeeper while Australian rules has 18. International rules has 15.

While it is clear to observers that Australian rules football is similar to Gaelic football, the exact relationship is unclear, as the Irish game was not codified by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) until 1887. The historian B. W. O'Dwyer points out that Australian football has always been different from rugby by having no limits on ball or player movement, the need to bounce the ball (or toe-kick it, known as a solo in Gaelic football) while running, punching the ball (hand-passing) rather than throwing it, and other traditions. As O'Dwyer says:

    These are all elements of Irish football. There were several variations of Irish football in existence, normally without the benefit of rulebooks, but the central tradition in Ireland was in the direction of the relatively new game [i.e. rugby]...adapted and shaped within the perimeters of the ancient Irish game of hurling... [These rules] later became embedded in Gaelic football. Their presence in Victorian football may be accounted for in terms of a formative influence being exerted by men familiar with and no doubt playing the Irish game. It is not that they were introduced into the game from that motive [i.e. emulating Irish games]; it was rather a case of particular needs being met... [B. W. O'Dwyer, March 1989, "The Shaping of Victorian Rules Football", Victorian Historical Journal, v.60, no.1.]

After 1887, the two games developed in isolation from each other. A number of players, most notably Jim Stynes have successfully made the transition from Gaelic football to Australian rules. In recent years, the two codes have played internationals against each other. Since 1967, a number of hybrid games have been played with International rules football first being played in 1984. The two codes play a series of internationals each October with matches being played in Ireland and Australia in alternate years.

Answer 3

irish has a round ball aussie has an oval ball.

a different scoring system with different posts

aussies play a longer game

Answer 4

I think it is the Leprechaun's Paddy !

Answer 5

I didn't know the Irish knew how to play football - I  thought they just watched it at the pub.

Answer 6

Ones played in Ireland and the other is played in Australia

Answer 7

Aussie rules you can't quite even of you get bit by a dingo. Irish rules you have to be good at waxing your schalaley

Answer 8

irish football you have ruby goals and soccer goals

the irish football is round the aussie rules football is oval

Answer 9

Australian football, also known as Australian rules football or less formally as "Aussie rules" or simply as "football" or "footy", is a code of football that originated in Melbourne, Australia. The game is played between two teams of 18 players (plus interchange players) on cricket ovals or similar-sized grassed arenas that vary in size and may be up to 185 metres (200 yards) long; these are much larger (almost four times the area) than those used by other codes of football.

The game is also distinguished from other games by the fast, relatively free, movement of the ball (partly due to the absence of an offside rule) and the awarding of a free kick for any mark (clean catch) of a ball that has been kicked more than 15 metres. Spectacular high marks or "speccies", tackles and fast fluid play are the game's main attributes as a spectator sport.

Although it is a winter sport, pre-season competitions usually begin in late February (late summer in the southern hemisphere). The football season, proper, is from March (early autumn) to August (late winter) with finals being held in September (early spring).

Structure and competitions

The most powerful organisation and competition within the game is the elite professional Australian Football League (AFL). The AFL is recognised by the Australian Sports Commission as being the National Sporting Organisation for Australian rules football. There are also seven state/territory-based organizations: AFL NSW/ACT, Football Tasmania, AFL Northern Territory, the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), AFL Queensland, Football Victoria and the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Most of these hold annual semi-professional club competitions while the others oversee more than one league. Local semi-professional or amateur organizations and competitions are affiliated to their state leagues.

The AFL is also the de facto world governing body for Australian Rules Football. There are also a number of organisations governing amateur competitions around the world.

Unlike most soccer competitions there are usually no separate "league" and "cup" trophies. In the AFL The McClelland Trophy is awarded to the team that finishes the league in first position (sometimes called the minor premiership) but this is not afforded as high a level of prestige as the major objective is the Premiership.

The teams that occupy the highest positions (usually the top four sides in most amateur leagues and the top eight sides in the AFL) play off in a "semi-knockout" finals series (in the AFL the top four sides get a second chance if they lose in the first round) with the two successful teams meeting in the Grand Final to contest the Premiership. The winner is awarded the Premiership Cup.

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Rules of the game

Main article: Laws of Australian football



An Australian football. The Sherrin brand is used for all official AFL matches.Both the ball and the field of play are oval in shape. No more than 18 players of each team are permitted to be on the field at any time. Up to four interchange (reserve) players may be swapped for those on the field at any time during the game. There is no offside rule nor are there set positions in the rules—unlike many other forms of football—players from both teams disperse across the whole field before the start of play.

The ball can be propelled in any direction by way of a foot, clenched fist (called a handball or handpass) or open-hand tap (unlike rugby football there is no knock-on rule) but it cannot be thrown under any circumstances. Throwing is defined in the rules quite broadly but is essentially any open hand disposal that causes the ball to move upward in the air.

A player may run with the ball but it must be bounced or touched on the ground at least every 15 metres (throwing down to bounce it is allowed). Opposition players may bump or tackle the player to obtain the ball and, when tackled, the player must dispose of the ball cleanly or risk being penalised for holding the ball.

If a player takes possession of the ball that has travelled more than 15 metres from another player's kick, by way of a catch, it is claimed as a mark and that player may then have a free kick (meaning that that the game stops while he prepares to kick from the point at which he marked). There are different styles of kicking depending on how the ball is held in the hand of which punt (the ball is held about or below the waist and the foot comes up to it) or drop punt (the ball is thrown forward and down, almost to the ground, to be kicked) are two.

Apart from free kicks or when the ball is in the possession of an umpire for a ball up or throw in the ball is always in dispute and any player from either side can take possession of the ball.

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Scoring

At each end of the field are four vertical posts. The middle two are the goal posts and the two on either side, which are shorter, are the behind posts, or point posts.

A goal is scored when the football is propelled through the goal posts at any height (including above the height of the posts) by way of a kick from the attacking team. It may fly through on the full or bounce through and must not be touched, on the way, by any player from either team. A goal cannot be scored from the foot of an opposition (defending) player.

A behind is scored when the ball goes across the line between a goal post and a behind post or if the ball hits a goal post or if it is touched (a rushed behind) before passing between the goal posts.

A goal is worth 6 points whereas a behind is worth 1 point.

The team that scores the most points at the end of play wins the game. A score of 10 goals and 10 behinds equals 70 points. A score of 9 goals and 18 behinds equals 72 points. The latter score would win the game despite the fact that that team scored one goal less. The result would usually be written as:

Team A 9.18 (72) defeated Team B 10.10 (70), and said, "... nine-eighteen seventy-two defeated ... ten-ten seventy."

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History

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Origins of the game

Tom Wills began to devise Australian rules in Melbourne in 1858. (Although H.C.A. Harrison, Wills' cousin, was also named, much later, as an official father of the game his role does not, now, seem to have been significant at this very early stage.) A letter by Wills was published in Bell's Life in Victoria & Sporting Chronicle on 10 July 1858, [1] calling for a "foot-ball club" with a "code of laws" to keep cricketers fit during winter. An experimental match, played by Wills and others, at the Richmond Paddock (later known as Yarra Park next to the MCG) on 31 July, 1858, was probably the first game of Australian football. However, few details of the match have survived.

On 7 August 1858, two significant events in the development of the game occurred. The Melbourne Football Club was founded, one of the world's first football clubs in any code, and a famous match between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College began, umpired by Wills. A second day of play took place on 21 August and a third, and final, day on 4 September. The two schools have competed annually ever since. However, the rules used by the two teams in 1858 could not have had much in common with the eventual form of Australian football since Wills had not yet begun to write them.



A game at the Richmond Paddock in the 1860s. A pavilion at the MCG is on the left in the background. (A wood engraving made by Robert Bruce on July 27, 1866.)The Melbourne Football Club rules of 1859 are the oldest surviving set of laws for Australian football. They were drawn up at the Parade Hotel, East Melbourne, on 17 May, by Wills, W. J. Hammersley, J. B. Thompson and Thomas Smith (some sources include H. C. A. Harrison). The 1859 rules did not include some elements that soon became important to the game, such as the requirement to bounce the ball while running, and Melbourne's game was not immediately adopted by neighbouring clubs. Before each match the rules had to be agreed by the two teams involved. By 1866, however, several other clubs had agreed to play by an updated version of Melbourne's rules.

It is often said that the founders were partly inspired by the ball games of the local Aboriginal people in western Victoria. Aborigines allegedly played a sport called Marn Grook that used a ball made out of possum hide, and is said to have featured jumping to catch the ball, called mumarki (meaning to catch), which resembles the high marking ("speccies") in Australian football.[2] There is considerable debate over the connection between the two. Wills did have a deep knowledge of Aboriginal culture and Harrison had grown up in an area near present day Moyston, Victoria where he may have seen Marn Grook.

The influence of British public school and university football codes, while undetermined, was clearly substantial. Wills had been educated at Rugby School in England (where Rugby football had been codified since 1845). Wills had also, like W. J. Hammersley and J. B. Thompson, been to the University of Cambridge. The Cambridge Rules, drawn up in 1848, included some elements which are important in Australian football, such as the mark. Thomas Smith was Irish and had attended Trinity College, Dublin, where the Rugby School rules were popular at a very early stage. These men would have been familiar with other public school and university games. They may also have been inspired by surviving forms of Medieval football and other traditional sports, played among the thousands of immigrants who poured into Victoria from the UK, Ireland and many other countries during the gold rushes of the 1850s.

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Similarities to Gaelic football

While it is clear even to casual observers that Australian rules football is similar to Gaelic football, the exact relationship is unclear, as the Irish game was not codified by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) until 1887. The historian B. W. O'Dwyer points out that Australian football has always been differentiated from rugby football by having no limitation on ball or player movement (in the absence of an offside rule), the need to bounce the ball (or toe-kick it, known as a solo in Gaelic football) while running, punching the ball (hand-passing) rather than throwing it, and other traditions. As O'Dwyer says:

These are all elements of Irish football. There were several variations of Irish football in existence, normally without the benefit of rulebooks, but the central tradition in Ireland was in the direction of the relatively new game [i.e. rugby]...adapted and shaped within the perimeters of the ancient Irish game of hurling... [These rules] later became embedded in Gaelic football. Their presence in Victorian football may be accounted for in terms of a formative influence being exerted by men familiar with and no doubt playing the Irish game. It is not that they were introduced into the game from that motive [i.e. emulating Irish games]; it was rather a case of particular needs being met... [B. W. O'Dwyer, March 1989, "The Shaping of Victorian Rules Football", Victorian Historical Journal, v.60, no.1.]

After 1887, the two games developed in isolation from each other. A number of players, most notably Jim Stynes have successfully made the transition from Gaelic football to Australian rules. (See also: Gaelic football converts to Australian_football.)

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International rules football

Main article: International rules football

Since 1967, there have been many matches between Australian and Irish teams, under various sets of hybrid, compromise rules. In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules football were played, and these are now played annually each October.

In 1999, a record Australian International Rules crowd of 65,000 at the MCG attended a game that saw Ireland defeat Australia but Australia win the series. In 2002, a record Irish International Rules crowd of 71,532 at Croke Park, Dublin witnessed a draw which also saw Australia win the series.

The rules are a compromise between the two codes, using the round ball and the rectangular field of Gaelic football. The fierce tackling of the Australian code is allowed.

Good Luck

Jimmy

Answer 10

A schooner of heavy beer v a pint of Guinness lager! Aussies, oy,oy,oy!

Answer 11

Aussie rules footy was originally based on Irish football. (There's a very strong Irish influence in Aus.) and has evolved some of it's own ways since.  It's commonly called aerial ping-pong by it's detractors!

Answer 12

Gaelic football uses a soccer ball and you cant tackle.

Answer 13

One team has leprachauns on it.

Answer 14

Aussie Rules is better. ;-)

GO EAGLES!