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Sample size people. We've had four rounds. It is too soon to declare anything on the new rule changes, including injuries.

Watched at full speed it is difficult to conclude that it was a 'deliberate elbow'. Once Cameron commits to jumping for the footy an impact was inevitable. There were no set of circumstances, short of Cameron simply don't trying to get to the contest, that doesn't end up with Cameron barrelling...

It seems silly to bring in a system that would be warranted on a couple of occasions per season. Furthermore, in the head of battle, umpires have poor judgment. Their record when it comes to reports is already spotty - it wouldn't take long before they red card a player only for that player to...

Would be hilarious watching the umpires try to explain ruck infringements.

"Umpires make 2.2 errors a game out of 400-plus decisions (factoring in non-decisions). To me it is deplorable how they are treated but that is the culture of our great game." What an absolute load of nonsense. I suppose it is pretty easy to never be wrong when you can justify almost anything...

It's obviously an unprecedented situation. They are surely better off than those who have been long-term injured and many of them get their football conditioning back quite quickly. In addition, many players finish the season in awful shape, requiring off-season surgery, whereas the banned...

What a load of nonsense. The 'saga' has done irreparable damage to the club, the players and the supporters. It will take a generation to fix. The idea that Essendon will 'benefit from cheating' is the type of small-minded thinking that might pervade the likes of BigFooty but simply isn't rooted...

He's had his issues in the past though they were all associated with playing up forward.

You might change your opinion a bit when you actually see Carlisle run around next season.

Maybe we should ask Roby. He looks at every decision (and non-decision) to determine which teams are being favoured by the umpires ;)

Your gut feel does not make for compelling evidence. If you have nothing more then this thread is worthless.

Bigger punishment would be to force him to play.

Well it shouldn't but that's another issue entirely and nothing to do with the score review or the boundary umpire.

On balance it looked touched. Why are we annoyed that the boundary umpire got involved if he was right?

They want to slow the players down but speed up ball movement. Result should be reduced stoppages and congestion around the ball. There is nothing absurd about that. If the rule changes had any real effect on ACLs we would've seen it two years ago when the sub was implemented and players had...

ACL injuries have nothing to do with fatigue. Players survived with minimal interchange rotations for over a century without it leading to unusual amounts of injuries. The sub rule was designed to slow the game down, fatigue the players and provide fairness in case of an injury. It appears to...

In theory the rule might seem reasonable since none of us want to see players be injured. But in practice it simply does not work which shouldn't be all that surprising since it was a knee-jerk reaction to a single injury. I suspect if you asked the players they'd rather take on a slightly...

I did not catch that particular decision but on any given weekend there is numerous examples of the holding the ball rule being applied poorly. In many cases the person who initially had the ball is called for holding the ball despite no longer possessing it. In other cases, it eventually turns...

Re: Want to help save Lindsay Thomas and quite possibly our game? Neither has much influence at all. The AFL would pay just as much attention if you put together an online petition i.e. none.

So true. The clown should be told to pull his head in. Spell in the two's wouldn't be bad either.

Umpiring really is the least professional aspect of the AFL. Seriously, find an interpretation that is appropriate and then call the free kicks which you think meets that interpretation. Changing your focus and interpretation week to week (and not using common sense) is so unprofessional.

Almost every tackle is dangerous by the simple fact that the aim of a tackle is to restrict the opponents capacity to dispose of the ball by restricting their range of movement. If we analysed the weekends games we would see a tonne of tackles where the player tackled cannot effectively break...