What changes would you like to see in 2024 and beyond?

[GOTHELIONS16]

Award the McClelland trophy to the best performing club of the year…

 

[Demon in Hell]

Award the McClelland trophy to the best performing club of the year…

They did.

 

[GOTHELIONS16]

They did.

Get real. Finals wins should be included in the McClelland Trophy. Everyone knows Brisbane were the best club of 2023. Runner up in the men’s, Premiers in the women’s.

If it’s going to be home and away season results only, the only relevant thing about the award is the $1 million prize money.

Behind the four walls, it would be a joke, the Demons would be loving the million dollars but they would all know which clubs results they would have preferred in 2023.

 

[Demon in Hell]

The awarding of the McClelland Trophy has never, ever, included finals games.

 

[sdfc]

Pay holding the ball.

 

[Section 5]

The awarding of the McClelland Trophy has never, ever, included finals games.

Correct but it never, ever included money either.
Good luck to the Dees for winning the big dollars on offer this year.
However, if the AFL want to keep this very compromised new format it should revert back to a trophy.

The mens premiership already comes with a big cash prize.
In my opinion the McClelland trophy money would be better spent if say $500k went to each of the VFL and AFLW premiership teams.

 

[Section 5]

Pay holding the ball.

They do except 50% of the fans think it should have gone the other way

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Correct but it never, ever included money either.
Good luck to the Dees for winning the big dollars on offer this year.
However, if the AFL want to keep this very compromised new format it should revert back to a trophy.

Yes it did. There was prize money awarded to the side that won the minor premiership.

 

[citizen-erased]

I'd like to see a lottery to disincentivize tanking. Perhaps equal ratios for the bottom 4 reducing up to 10th spot.

• Any untouched kick down the line paid "insufficient intent", except inside forward 50
• Get rid of the touched off the boot rule. The game's hard enough to umpire and would make ARC easier to process decisions.
• Independent doctors for concussions, data collected and openly reported on all head knocks.

I like the touched off the boot call.
id also pay the goal if it nicks the inside of the post

Im a big advocate of no whistle advantage call. And use the whistle only to stop play.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

• Get rid of the touched off the boot rule. The game's hard enough to umpire and would make ARC easier to process decisions

You're actually adding more complication to the rule with this. If you can still touch the ball to make it a point, then how far does the ball have to travel before it counts as touched, and not just touched off the boot?

Or is it any touch at all and its still a goal? Defenders on the goal line have to keep the ball in play?

What happens if a teammate touches it with his hand? What about if the kicks missing but a teammate palms the ball through the goal?

 

[Duckimus Prime]

2. Get rid of nominating the ruckman. Why cant any player just go up for the ruck FFS?

You can't block a ruckman from being involved in the ruck contest. But you can block the run of other players around the contest. How do you know who the ruckman is?

Even with the ruck nomination teams were being sneaky to get free kicks, with unusual ruck options at stoppages around the ground.

 

[kickazz]

No arc for touched of the boot, umpire needs to see it.

Extend to 20m the distance you can run between bounces, but actually enforce it.

 

[kickazz]

You're actually adding more complication to the rule with this. If you can still touch the ball to make it a point, then how far does the ball have to travel before it counts as touched, and not just touched off the boot?

Or is it any touch at all and its still a goal? Defenders on the goal line have to keep the ball in play?

What happens if a teammate touches it with his hand? What about if the kicks missing but a teammate palms the ball through the goal?

Make it goal square only. Done

 

[Hoops]

Insufficient intent. Tell me how grabbing a ball and running over the line or being tackled over the line despite having prior opportunity is a sufficient attempt to keep the ball in? You could approach your run in an arc or parallel to the line or attempt to punch the ball backwards or get rid of it before being tackled or bumped. But lets penalise a kick down the line whilst under pressure and no time to be able to direct the ball inwards.

 

[lordbob]

For the umpires to pay the actual free kicks that are there rather than having it depend on which player has the ball. A

 

[Stemp Fester]

Hard crackdown on throwing.