Quinn: GAA sledging worse than Aussie Rules
May 22, 2015
Longford's Michael Quinn at a Leinster GAA Football & Hurling Senior Championship Quarter-Finals Media Event at Croke Park.
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Longford star Mickey Quinn claims sledging is more widespread in the GAA than in Aussie Rules.
Quinn, who spent three years playing in the AFL with the Essendon Bombers before returning home at the end of 2011, was called 'milk bottle' and 'pasty' by the opposition Down Under, but he believes verbal abuse is far worse in the GAA.
"I suppose there was a good bit of it in the AFL too, but it's probably more so here because guys know more about each other," the Killoe Emmet Og clubman told reporters in Croke Park yesterday ahead of Longford's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Dublin on May 31.
"It's such a small community in the GAA that guys know more about personal matters and they're all brought into it. It's part of the game, it's not a nice part of the game.
"Whether it needs to be clamped down on, it probably does. The rules are there for the referees to implement.
"Is the punishment big enough? It's hard to know. The 50-metre penalty is something in AFL for back-answering or not giving the ball back. It's a huge penalty."
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