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Lost of AFL news dropping today (the Commission has been busy!)

Tasmania draft concessions:


- Devils will be handed picks No.1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13, and the first selection of each subsequent round in their first draft, which is set to be in 2027 (must trade picks 5, 7, 11 and 13)

- $5 million sign-on bonus fund that will sit outside the salary cap


NGA eligibility changes:


- all NGA applications from now on to rely on parents' cultural backgrounds

- at least one parent is required to have been born in an eligible country

- addition of the Pacific and Central and South American regions to the cultural eligibility criteria and the removal of European countries
 

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"We're not changing the number of interchanges or anything like that, so there'll be five on the bench. We want to try and lock that away for a long time … as certainly as long as I'm in the chair."

Not quite. We should have unlimited interchanges
Rubbish , to get better scoring you need to cut it
 
Rubbish , to get better scoring you need to cut it

Correct, the less interchanges the more the game opens, there is a line though and that's why they have experts in this area- you and I are not in this area. Unlimited would just become a rugby scrum and we don't need it, it's ugly.
 
Rubbish , to get better scoring you need to cut it
Average scores in the AFL have gone down since it was introduced :)

YearAverage GoalsAverage BehindsTotal Average Score
201013.19.6
88.2​
201113.59.7
90.7​
201213.39.6
89.4​
201313.49.4
89.8​
201412.68.9
84.5​
201512.68.6
84.2​
201612.99.1
86.5​
201712.99.5
86.9​
2018129
81​
201911.68.6
78.2​
20208.86.4
59.2​
202111.58.5
77.5​
202212.18.4
81​
202312.18.5
81.1​
202412.38.5
82.3​
202512.38.8
82.6​

Interchange Caps were introduced in 2014.

Source: https://afltables.com/afl/stats/yearly.html#ave
 
Average scores in the AFL have gone down since it was introduced :)

YearAverage GoalsAverage BehindsTotal Average Score
201013.19.6
88.2​
201113.59.7
90.7​
201213.39.6
89.4​
201313.49.4
89.8​
201412.68.9
84.5​
201512.68.6
84.2​
201612.99.1
86.5​
201712.99.5
86.9​
2018129
81​
201911.68.6
78.2​
20208.86.4
59.2​
202111.58.5
77.5​
202212.18.4
81​
202312.18.5
81.1​
202412.38.5
82.3​
202512.38.8
82.6​

Interchange Caps were introduced in 2014.

Source: https://afltables.com/afl/stats/yearly.html#ave

Take out the obvious outlier which is the COVID year and it's basically the same. If anything it shows the reduction hasn't gone far enough but this is expected. You also have to consider just how bad the bottom 6 sides were the last two years none of them could score. More 100 plus games these days than the rugby scrum matches in the late 2010's. Scoring up 4 points a game since 2021, that's better for fans.
 

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We never kicked 100 points at home this year , what i can remember

Yep, I've been on this all year, rubbish gameplan that just doesn't promote scoring. Then you want to attract the best players to a club? To do what? Score 75-85 points a game? It's just not attractive, that's just reality we have to be honest here. Compare that to Brisbane or Geelong they score 110 to 120 points heaps of times at home.

Now is this gameplan or is this personel or is it a bit of both? It's probably a bit of everything but bottom line for players to want to come they sure would want to see a gameplan that looks fun and exciting and can contend.
 
It's enough now and fair !
Wouldn't fair be unlimited and allow clubs to manage their players how they want? Unlimited interchanges means better footballers who just happen to have less tanks getting drafted instead of elite runners who have worse skills which would allow clubs to have more options at draft time

Seems more fair to me with no cap :)
 
Wouldn't fair be unlimited and allow clubs to manage their players how they want? Unlimited interchanges means better footballers who just happen to have less tanks getting drafted instead of elite runners who have worse skills which would allow clubs to have more options at draft time

Seems more fair to me with no cap :)
Fair to you , not the look of the game , bye
 
Yep, I've been on this all year, rubbish gameplan that just doesn't promote scoring. Then you want to attract the best players to a club? To do what? Score 75-85 points a game? It's just not attractive, that's just reality we have to be honest here. Compare that to Brisbane or Geelong they score 110 to 120 points heaps of times at home.

Now is this gameplan or is this personel or is it a bit of both? It's probably a bit of everything but bottom line for players to want to come they sure would want to see a gameplan that looks fun and exciting and can contend.
Maybe you can put in for the VFL gig
 

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"We're not changing the number of interchanges or anything like that, so there'll be five on the bench. We want to try and lock that away for a long time … as certainly as long as I'm in the chair."

Not quite. We should have unlimited interchanges
We have been down that path…you need fatigue in the game…unlimited interchange inhibits that as we saw before.
 
We have been down that path…you need fatigue in the game…unlimited interchange inhibits that as we saw before.
But do you? Fatigue increases risks of injury, poorer decision making and by a product of having less time to rest, drafting of worse players because clubs prioritise fitness instead of skills

And it statistically didn't improve the game in terms of scoring. Right bedford ?
 
But do you? Fatigue increases risks of injury, poorer decision making and by a product of having less time to rest, drafting of worse players because clubs prioritise fitness instead of skills

And it statistically didn't improve the game in terms of scoring. Right bedford ?
I am sure it was introduced to reduce congestion, not necessarily increase scoring, which complimented by other rules, eg 666 and stand rule I think achieved its goal. I don’t think there is any correlation to injuries and restricted interchange…..this was a topic a while back I recall. Drafting worse players, I reckon some crap players were probably drafted prior to restrictions on interchange so thats a long bow to draw.
 
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