By John Haughey BBC Sport

Sean Boylan accused the Aussies of using "thuggery" on Sunday

Brennan's misgivings about the hybrid game were already on record after last year's dust-up in Melbourne.

And it's difficult to see the Kilkenny man having the desire to quell the anger that is certain to dominate the GAA's next Central Council meeting, when Sunday's debacle will be discussed.

However, let's get real amid all the righteous indignation which has filled the airwaves after Sunday's shenanigans.

Anybody who was surprised by tag-team wrestling that passed for a sporting contest must have been living on another planet over the last 22 years.

The Australians and Irish have been punching the lights out of each other since the marriage was consummated at Croke Park in 1984.

For goodness sake, the hardest man even to wear a Meath jersey Mick Lyons was carted off Croker on a stretcher after 90 seconds of one of the 1984 Tests.

Every series has had explosions of violence which have varied from the sneaky to the downright full-on mayhem which has afflicted the Tests over the last 13 months.

The GAA and the Australian Football League have exhausted virtually every possible method of making this marriage work but every initiative has been a failure.

The GAA should concentrate on cleaning up its own games rather than devoting time and energy to this annual orgy of violence

And we have reached a situation now where the Australian professionals are always going to be able to out-physical the amateur Irish players given that the so-called rules have been shown to be unenforceable.

The arguments over who started Sunday's violence are really a side-show.

Like every euphemistically-described GAA shemozzle of recent years, both sides are blaming each other and you would have needed to have about three times as many camera angles as Sky Sports employ to have even the remotest idea as to what kicked off Sunday's carnage.

The reality is that Gaelic Football and Australian Rules are two totally different footballing codes with totally different rules.

As we know only too well from the amount of on-field rows in the sport, the GAA has massive disciplinary problems of its own and perhaps it should concentrate on cleaning up its own games rather than devoting time and energy to this annual orgy of violence.

After all, this game took place on the same day when referee Pat Fox was allegedly assaulted at the end of a Leinster Club Championship game between Carlow club Palatine and Offaly team Rhode.

If the plug is pulled, there will be plenty of column-inches from the disappointed journalistic junketeers but deserving of more concern will be the reaction of players, who genuinely, prized an international outlet previously lacking in the GAA.

That pride is understandable and it's equally comprehensible that players coveted an all-expenses paid three-week trip Down Under every two years.

However, for the greater good of the GAA, a halt must be called.