It’s 11 years since the international rules series had a pre-Test media conference in Croke Park with nothing to talk about. The current format of the one-Test series doesn’t provide any entrails to be examined. It’s all hypothetical and when the match is over there’s no time left for talking about it. Australia have brought as strong a team as ever the AFL have sent, selected with the requirement that each player must have won an All-Australian award at some point in their career. The captain, from the AFL’s dominant club Hawthorn and last year’s Australia Player of the Series, Luke Hodge, did explain to Friday’s conference however that there was a reason for the willingness of top players...
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