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But it's the going out of bounds that makes it a free kick. Imagine Howe's kick bounces away from the boundary line instead of towards it. The kick definitely shows no intent to keep it in play, but because it doesn't go over the line, there's no free kick. So the act that makes it a free...

Genuinely interested in why you believe that, when the AFL have released the footage showing the siren went before it crossed the line?

The rule is already consistent with other rules, for instance, the rule on taking a mark. If the ball is in flight when the siren goes, and then the mark is taken afterwards, you don't get paid the mark. Likewise, if the ball is in the air when the siren goes, and then after the siren, it goes...

The NBA keeps detailed stats. This is an unofficial version, I think: https://www.nbastuffer.com/2020-2021-nba-referee-stats/ An economist used the NBA's own stats some years ago to essentially prove racial bias in refereeing: https://www.nber.org/papers/w13206

Chart crime.

Agree. For me, the perfect example is the free kick deep in the pocket, where the player with the free has to stay perfectly on their line, but the player on the mark can drift metres into the field of play, helping them either man the space or cut-off the play-on attempt. Plus, surely it's...

As interchange numbers have come down in the last ten years (or however long its been), congestion has worsened.

You don't think coaches will spend more time making their players fitter?

1. Checking 36 players are in their appropriate zones would take a lot longer than looking at the two big blokes jogging towards the ballup. It would require umpires to be counting rather than looking around the contest to see if anyone is being grabbed, held, blocked, etc - ie they're looking...

People can't handle the 1.5 seconds it takes for ruckmen to be nominated. Can you imagine this bullshit every times there's a ball-up or throw-in?

No, it's actually to make the game simpler. Fewer rules, fewer interpretations, fewer changes. You never make a complex system better by making it more complex.

Backwards kick rule doesn't work on an oval shaped ground. Take the example below. Ball is kicked from near the boundary in a direction that gets you towards the wing (if it kept going on that trajectory), which is clearly moving it forward. Yet it goes from outside 50 into the 50, which is...

It's been 18 on the field since 1899. Some things are so fundamental to the game they shouldn't be changed, IMO.

Nothing wrong with 666 - just an extension of starting positions for centre bounces for decades. The problem is that we haven't defined the problem. Congestion as a concept is quite hazy - how many players in how many sqm and under what circumstances is it deemed to be congested? Just pick...

Her and Razor Ray are the only two that anyone knows, so they cop more grief than anyone. And that bald idiot, whatever his name is. In her case, she's made some stinkers of decisions and deserves to be dropped.

Only catch is when the player on the mark is engaged/blocked and the ball is more than five metres away, which should make it a free kick. Player on the mark should draw the free in those situations by running into the shepherder.

Get rid of the rule completely, IMO. Is there anything wrong with expecting a player with the ball to have some situational awareness?

Oh look I hate the Eagles with a passion, and think there were some soft ones for the Eagles towards the end, but the free kick was there. If I was a Saints fan I'd be getting angrier at Montagna for missing that goal late in the game.

The last free kick was there. Dragged it in and lay on it. No effort to get it out. Free kick without question.

Exactly.