I’m worried for the evenness of the competition. Top teams will demolish bottom teams the further players are spread. Carlton and Suns will be sentenced to another 3 years in the bottom 4. Good riddance I guess!
Just get rid of the interchange/rotations. Let the players actually get tired and the congestion will fall away markedly as they become unable to get to as many contests. The game would naturally revert back to the positional game it once was. Current game plans would be pretty much done away with, because without a constant stream of refreshed players, they are not physically possible. No need to invent new rules, just get rid of some that shouldn’t have been brought in in the first place.
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I don’t think any of those things have been lost to the game though at various times in a game each gets squeezed. These changes certainly won’t make things significantly easier for tall forwards. Id still be surprised to see too many more players kick 100 goals in a season.
I don’t think pulling 3 pairs back. Is going to drastically alter forward line congestion because most sides Always try to keep at least 3 ahead of the ball anyway, though not all the way back in their 50.
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So what happens when guys get injured? Do you mean no rotations or interchange at all?
Bring back the sub!*
*Under no circumstances bring back the sub.
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You have two guys on the bench who can come on to replace an injured player.
Once a player is removed from the field he cannot be put back on.
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Wot?
No time on for backwards kicking. Mark is awarded. Play on is called if mark is uncontested/ opposition is great than 5 metres away from the marking player.
Its more technical than that.
Plays are called by the QB. QB calls his numbers out for opposing defence.
Opposing team defense tries to negate what play may occur with those numbers called.
Extend bench by 4.
Get rid of 4 teams.
Top 6 finals
Have every team play each other twice
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Changing the game through making the players fatugued will only result in three things
- More soft tissue injuries
- Decreased skills
- Increased PED use
Its a really dumb idea.
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Ad to this no preseason.
The players can’t go back to the clubs til after New Years. Get them real fat and lazy.
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Must drink a stubby and smoke a cigarette at half time.
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Wanna make a bet who hasn’t done this sort of in-depth thinking?
The rule change the AFL is likely to recommend on Wednesday
By Jake Niall, The Age 24 July 2018
The AFL is likely to recommend the introduction of the proposed “six-six-six” format at centre bounces for the 2019 season when the league’s Competition Committee gathers for a crucial meeting on Wednesday.
Under the proposal – the biggest change to centre bounces since the introduction of the centre square – each team would be forced to have six players inside of the 50 metre arcs at both ends. The centre square set-ups would remain at four players per side, with two per team – wingers, effectively – outside the square and between the arcs.
Under the likely recommendation, which has been developed by the AFL’s game analysis group and trialled by clubs, those two “wingers” could be stationed anywhere, including on the back of the centre square, giving the coaches some flexibility for tactical placements.
If adopted – and it would have to be approved by the Competition Committee and then ratified by the AFL Commission later this year – this “six-six-six” set up for centre bounces would constitute a muted form of “starting positions”, compared with the more radical concept of having a smaller number of players (between two and four) forced to stay in the arcs at all stoppages.
“Six-six-six” is considered more palatable to the players and coaches, judged by the feedback that has surrounded the bold changes initiated by the AFL’s forthright new football boss Steve Hocking, who told The Age on Monday that some recommendations on rule changes would be made at Wednesday’s meeting.
If the “six-six-six” format is introduced, it would make it harder for coaches to put massive numbers behind the ball late in games to protect leads. But the objective would be more to create greater space and remove congestion. Players obviously would quickly run out of the arcs once the ball was bounced, as they do under the current rule that allows players to be stationed anywhere outside of the centre square.
AFL legend Leigh Matthews has been among those in favour of starting positions for centre bounces.
Starting positions at all stoppages has been trialled by clubs and will be discussed at Wednesday’s meeting, but has been met with strong opposition in some quarters, with senior coaches such as Nathan Buckley and Luke Beveridge warning of the unintended consequences of such a change. It appears unlikely that starting positions at all stoppages will be recommended at the Wednesday meeting at this stage.
The AFL’s game analysis group also has found it difficult to work out how precisely to police starting positions – which some describe by the more polarising term “zones”. It is unclear what happens, for instance, when a player from each team transgresses, since you arguably can’t pay a free kick to both teams in that scenario.
The reduction of interchange rotations from the present 90 and the expansion of the goal square to an 18 metre square are set to be discussed at the Wednesday meeting, which will also address player movement – in particular the mid-season drafts and trading – and the re-shaping of the AFL fixture.
The Wednesday meeting will be crucial in shaping the rules for 2019 and beyond. The Hocking-led Competition Committee includes coaches Brad Scott and Chris Fagan, players Patrick Dangerfield and Steven May, club presidents Eddie McGuire, Peggy O’Neal and Colin Carter, plus chief executives and football managers.
The introduction of which was 1 year after the introduction of the centre diamond, Neville Fields kicked 6 goals as a centreman which caused the introduction of the centre square,
As always with the League, a knee-jerk reaction to a single incident usually caused by the incompetence of one umpire. i.e. the one across the centre circle.
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The beginning of the mad dash mass sprint age. Fanfarkingtastic.
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Satan approves six-six-six
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lel.
how the ■■■■ you can have current players, coaches and administrators on any sort of committee like that has me baffled. actually, it’s the afl, nothing surprises me anymore.
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Zones can go to hell.