Must be bullshit because it says that David Myers is good
Coaches know nothing
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I’m getting really interested in what the changes to kick outs are going to do because I think they are going to be bad for us
Let’s say that under the previous rules teams were going ‘coast to coast’ or whatever the fuckwits in the media call it these days and scoring from 10-15% of their kick outs. These tend to be high rates of conversion because there is little pressure and heaps of space. So for each behind that you kick let’s say that the opposition currently scores 0.6-0.9 points. (0.1-0.15 x 6 points).
If that rate rises significantly the impact of kicking a behind is going to rise in parallel. If teams are scoring 1.5 points on the rebound for every point you kick then you need to revisit your defensive strategies and potentially the forward press becomes redundant
Teams that are inaccurate (Essendon, cough) in front of goals are going to be penalized by the changes significantly in comparison to those teams that tend to be accurate
Except we’re above average for accuracy.
Slightly.
We convert at 53%, league average 52%
Last year we were 54%, league average 53%
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I disagree.
I believe the rules will benefit us, hopefully, greatly, if only because we’ve recruited a midfield in the last few years. Having done so, these rules will force us to rely on them.
What we’ve had to do, to use a soccer parlance, is play 6-7-5, with one of our forwards playing up into the middle. Basically, we had Jobe, Stanton, Heath Hocking & Colyer. They needed help.
The clubs who have given us trouble (Hawthorn, Carlton & Collingwood) all played 7-6-5 against us.
That is, they took a forward and used him as loose man in defense.
How many times did we kick the ball to that bloke with the mullet in the late season game against Hawthorn?
And that nameless, faceless bloke from Carlton was the same when we played them.
This 6-6-6 rule change will force us to compete with them in the midfield, and should mean the ability to drop someone back is negated.
I agree with McGuane’s article, we have the deepest midfield, so when others are resting blokes elsewhere, we should be running blokes like Zaharakis and Parish through the middle, having seen off Shiel, Smith, Heppell and Merrett.
I am hoping our midfield is going to be like facing the West Indies in the 70s & 80s.
You see off Andy Roberts and Michael Holding, but Joel Garner and Colin Croft replace them.
These guys then pump the ball into a forward line that actually has enough players that if we don’t mark it, we have players at the fall of the ball to retain it.
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If we are inaccurate from set-shots, and get hurt on the quick play from the kick out, we deserve to be flogged.
There is 30 seconds to set-up for the kick-out. That is more than enough time to set-up whatever zone we want to play.
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Preventing that easy transition from a kick in to the opposition forward line was actually something I think we were actually consistently good at last year.
In particular cutting off the second kick option and forcing the opposition to go slowly up the line to an outnumbered contest, or repeatedly chipping square across the back fifty.
It was the turnovers in general play that really cost us, as several articles and comments have alluded to lately.
With Saad Conor and Francis all capable of both dash and/or precision kicking I think we’re better set up to take advantage of the new rules than it would cost us.
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Have compiled the 9 rule changes. Thought it would be useful to post…
Rule 1:
Players no longer have to kick the ball to themselves from full-back to play on. As soon as the goal umpire signals a behind they can run out of the goal square then kick or handball. The player on the mark is 10m back from the top of the goalsquare.
Rule 2:
A 6-6-6 centre square set-up with six players from each side inside 50m at each centre square, including one in each goal square. Wingman can patrol up and down each side of the centre square but not drop behind the ball.
Rule 3:
No more water carriers or runners on the ground during play. They have 45 seconds after a goal to do their thing and get off the ground.
Rule 4:
The hands in the back rule is repealed, meaning a player can put his hands in the back of an opponent but not push them.
Rule 5:
A ruckman who takes possession of the ball at a bounce or throw-up doesn’t lose their prior opportunity but the old ruck nominations remain.
Rule 6.
Players are no longer allowed to set up behind the umpire at centre bounces.
Rule 7:
A player awarded a mark post-siren can now kick a snap shot at goal but they must kick over the man on the mark. For instance, a right-footer must set up five metres left of the mark then kick the ball as they reach the line that runs between the goal and the man on the mark, and not after.
Rule 8:
If a defender marks or is awarded a free kick deep in defence next to the point post, the man on the mark must retreat in line with the top of the goal square.
Rule 9:
When a player wins a 50m penalty the umpire will be stricter on the infringing player, not allowing him to delay his opponent rushing upfield to quickly take his kick. The advancing player can play on any time as he moves up field to get to the forward point of the 50m penalty.
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It will take a few rounds in assess but if teams who lose Centre clearances lose games, or struggle to win it will clearly highlight the importance of your midfield set up. I dread the the thought of your no 1 ruckman geting injured in the first quarter and you can’t put an extra man back. Just like we all hope TBell stays healthy I guess every other team hopes the same for their no 1
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It’s only one televised game as a sample size, but clearly that initial clearance at a centre bounce will heavily favour teams with clearance specialists as it is more difficult to get congestion around the footy and nullify. Defenders will get exposed more and more one out, so it will highlight those defenders who have profited in years gone by in having that extra man behind the football straight from a centre bounce. Too early to say whether it will be a success or not, but it will make for interesting viewing.
My takeaway from last night is that we are going to have to have Stringer in the middle for as many centre bounces as possible
Our lack of genuine clearance winning mids is going to hurt
Anthony Miles is going to be a very good pickup for GCS
We can potentially have Ridley/Mitch Brown start on the wing, standing on the defensive edge of the square and push back to play as an extra defender. Which means one of the back 6 can cut-off the space the full-forward now gets.
Teams will work out ways to circumvent scoring when the opposition is dominating clearances.
I think you’ll see the midfielders stationed differently around the circle the further we go into the season.
I’m predicting one to get to the feet of the ruckman and the other two to hold ground further back than usual. Taps will try to get to outside more often with the punch hitout to come back.
We might not be the team that gets the advantage but it’s great for the game. Players who hunt the footy will start getting rewarded again for doing so. Richmond took advantage of by forcing pressure and a rushed kick while other teams would wait and tackle and get rewarded for holding the ball.
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Aaron Francis would be our best option for kickouts, he has the length and if a shorter, more central option opens up he has the balls and talent to nail it.
On the Mark or Off the Mark
If a defender on the Mark moves any other direction but laterally the opposing team will be rewarded a 50m penalty.
Meaning if the defender moves backwards…instant 50m penalty.
And WTF is 1 metre level of tolerance? The umps can’t judge how far a Tigers legit kick is FFS!
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The rules have irretrievably altered the game to more resemble synchronised swimming than Australian Football.
It has become an unnecessary joke that does not lead to intensely passionate entertainment, but rather, a boring non contact, low scoring sport destined to die on the vine.
Wake up AFL…you’ve almost killed what in the 1980’s was the greatest sport on the Planet!!!
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One of the worst things the AFaiL ever did was form the Rules Committee. Every year they come up with more utterly stupid changes that are totally unnecessary in order to make changes that are not needed. The powers that be are more interested in the ‘look’ of the game, rather than the health of the game.
They have started down a slope, and l can’t see them stopping any time soon, unfortunately.
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They do well to silence critics by taking actual football shows off air. They replace them with light hearted entertainment that sometimes discuss nothing to do with football, even when they have a guest football personality.
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For the past 20 years they’ve been introducing one rule change after another to increase the speed of the game. And what has been the effect?
Well, what a surprise! The game has slowed down, become more and more indirect and dominated by defensive tactics.
Now we’re having more changes to increase the speed of the game. I wonder what the effect will be this time.
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What rule change did this?
I think the game would still be indirect and dominated by defensive tactics without any of the rule changes so far.
I think the AFL want an open / fast / direct game like the 90s and are trying (and failing) to find a way to get back there.
At some point we have to accept that this is now what the game is and leave it at that.
If we can’t accept that then stop messing with the fringes of the game and make a drastic change like zones.
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