AFL weighing up more rule changes as Gill McLachlan speaks on plans for 2021 season
Exclusive: AFL weighing up more rule changes as Gill speaks on plans for next season
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16 a side would work.Stop tinkering and go for one big change. Change it to 15 a side instead of 18. It will work better than 100 minor rule changes and will future proof the game.
When Gill says "wider audience' he means anybody that doesnt follow footy eg, China, USA, most of QLD and NSW .I love this quote from the above article which just shows the distance between where the AFL execs are and footy fans.
“I think the challenge is always managing a progression to where the wider audience wants the game to be, while respecting heritage and tradition,” McLachlan told Fox Footy at the launch of the AFL finals series.
Here they are simply assuming they know what the wider footy fans and audiences want and that the game has to progress forward to be better. Where most footy fans I know, will argue the opposite of progression. We don’t need to progress with new rules to change the game, we need to go backwards and remove a lot of the recent rules and interpretations instead.
The key part to that statement is wider audience. To me, wider audience does not mean Gil and Hocking single handedly deciding on the rules of the game and continuing to make broad range changes without input from the fans or members.
At the very least, everyone who has signed on as a member should be involved in some capacity to vote on potential rule changes.
You want to please the wider audience but you don’t value their input or provide them with opportunity to have their input. Instead, it is a small group who are given the power to make changes/rules. We have seen in recent years that this doesn’t work and causes new issues as they approach new rules with a 1 track mind of hopefully fixing one issue but causing multiple flow on issues.
Nah more rules is goodSack Steve Hocking asap Gil, forget about rule changes.
16 a side would work.
Limit interchanges to 40 a game.
It opens up the game more. Creates more 1v1 chances. Football players Will be more valued I think.Sure, let’s raise the importance of having endurance athletes over footballers even further.
Doesn’t matter if a player can’t kick so long as they can keep running whilst the opposition look like they’re running in mud after 3QT. They can just burn their opponents on offence and easily chase down said opposition when they turn it over.
Yes this. Just throw it up/in and only 1 player from each team can compete, if a third goes up then free to opposition. DONE.Make Interchange lower numbers. 50?
scrap the nominating
Throw it up/back in straight away
Bring back dropping the ball
Thats really all they need and then make it a rule that they can't change rules for 5 years
And play on a rectangle, with off sides, stop the farcical ball up and roll the ball between 2 "packs" of players to fight it out, get rid of the point posts at the same time, only reward goals, and maybe tries too.....wait.....thats Rugby Union. Damn.Stop tinkering and go for one big change. Change it to 15 a side instead of 18. It will work better than 100 minor rule changes and will future proof the game.
And bring back holding the man. never gets paid except in marking contests and happens all the time around the ground and every stoppage, drives me spareMake Interchange lower numbers. 50?
scrap the nominating
Throw it up/back in straight away
Bring back dropping the ball
Thats really all they need and then make it a rule that they can't change rules for 5 years
fingers crossed for zooper goals
Clamp down on throwing the ball, blocking and holding off the ball.
Get rid off prior opportunity as well while you're at it.
Yes this. Just throw it up/in and only 1 player from each team can compete, if a third goes up then free to opposition. DONE.
None of this "hey Max you going up?" "Carlton who's up for you?" meanwhile another half dozen players have made it into the zone to cause more congestion.
Absolutely Farcical at the moment.