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I think we need to focus on creating plays that break zones open and spread the field. I think some of the newer rules have done that, stand rule created a little more run and carry. kick out rule has created some more run and carry. I think no need to touch/bounce would create a little...

That's true, but I feel it would look too much like AFLX. It would be too quick and too open, not much of a contest and possibly too high scoring and worst of all it would look easy. I couldn't stand AFLX for this reason as a spectator sport. IMO football is at it's best when the balance...

I've been thinking about what rules should we change for 2022 to help teams attack in zoned football. I think we need to support play that helps teams play through zones. One of those is clearing the ball cleanly from stoppages and the other is creating run and carry. Ball movement is another...

Green should get a couple of weeks... The umpire should get a few too. Umpires should stay out of the way of players, IMO some do a poor job of this. The umpire should have been nowhere near the players. It's like walking in front of a car that was underway and complaining it hit you. The...

I was thinking 5 on the bench because teams would find it easier to pick a second ruckman and that would make it easier for teams to have a stays at home center half forward and full forward. Taller targets up front help sides go forward quicker and use long kicking more and would see more...

The man on the mark rule is going to be a joke. The worst thing they can do to the game to ruin the appeal and look of it is to make it easy. Footy is supposed to be instinctive and the rules are mostly for players safety and fairness of the game. It shouldn't be about giving the offensive...

I still love watching games with other teams in them. There have always been opposition teams I have loved watching over the years and some I don't. The thing is there are other factors to play as well, there is just so much on to watch these days. 20 years ago you turn the tv on when the...

The sport is still good. We all love watching out side play and win. However it could be better. Our game mirrors a lot of other world games at present so it's probably more easily marketable. Soccer and Rugby are both very defensive and low scoring games that have enormous following world...

Just a thought on what the AFL are trying to achieve with their rule changes and why I think they are going to drive things backwards. For a start, as long as footy has existed the formula to a good quality contest has always been about having the balance between Pressure Applied V Skill...

You will never ever see footy where teams don't use zones and don't push forward and back. Those days were over 20 years ago and they're long gone. Most people don't mind the game upping the defensive side, the viewership and following of the game I am pretty sure is increasing despite the...

I love watching Richmond, I do appreciate good defence however. Their ball movement is quick and elite and in 2017 their get the ball to the back of the oppositions zone tactic was brilliant. Teams do lock the game down after taking a lead to crush opposition's comebacks before going attack...

Congestion happens because of poor footy. Poor skills not poor game plans. Good teams still open the game up and play a terrific brand of footy. I think having so many teams contribute to this as well as some rule changes designed to make the game less congested forcing the game to become...

Glad the AFL stepped in here. People are forgetting the bigger picture and that is protecting players brains. Player's health and long term welfare come first. Houli deliberately threw an elbow which has concussed a player. There is nothing complicated here. Those who think it was...

I've seen it done enough intentionally to know. That's not how you swing an arm to break a hold... and what hold. Not much there. It was a brain fade. I've seen this sort of thing enough times to know. 3 probably about right as I don't think he has a broken jaw but a concussion is bad...

Anyone who has ever played football or has even gone for a run knows that the only time you swing your elbow backwards like that is to strike someone, it's not a natural movement and if you raise the elbow then swing it backwards like that, your head hunting. I've played enough footy to know...

Lucky to get 2 weeks. There's only one reason you swing your elbow backwards at head height. Still cant see how deliberately elbowing someone in the head and knocking them out is just two weeks. Lucky.

Third man up was a great tactic coaches implemented to open the game up. I think paying more free kicks at stoppages did a great job in ending this rolling maul thing. But when you have a third man up it removes one or two players from the stoppage and the ball is hit further, it really opened...

Another poorly executed bump, bumped standing as tall as he could and at his height, of course there would be head high contact. Deserves to go purely on his atrocious bumping technique. With his form, very disappointing for Hawks.

What a load of crap. If Hodge had of slid in and broken Murphy's leg then we'd all be winging about how there should be a sliding in rule. Hodge probably would not have slid in as he's always been a tough class player who keeps his feet any way. Compare the two Broken leg/ruptured ligament -...

the rule changes are out of control.

This is a discussion forum and I am discussing something. I felt that the tribunal was getting to be a real joke and the whole system was creating a situation were people were getting under and over penalised and it was just not straight forward enough. I used an example where 1 player got...

Judd's act was a bloody stupid brain fade and perhaps when he first grabbed the arm he might have though he could roll him over and pull out the footy like he said, and perhaps if the umpire blew his whistle for a ball up earlier it wouldn't have even happened. Just like wellingham would have...

Just watched that game again, you do realise Adam's shoulder injury had nothing to do with what Judd did. It came about from a collision with Andrew Collins towards the end of the last quarter. It wasn't pretty either, just the kind of impact that wrecks shoulders as I have expierenced...

No, just no. That's the same as believing Judd when he said he was grabbing the arm to dislodge the football. Your opining is fair enough but I believe creating excuses like the last minute decision thing is just not correct. I've got 150 games of senior footy under me and understand how it...

This is not what I read according to a quote on an article on afl.com.au Partial dislocation doesn't necessarily mean it came it, it usually means it partially came out which will cause ligaments to be damaged a bit and inflamation and pain. Either way, it doesn't compare to head and jaw...

Yeah hunt should have got about 2 weeks, no question. Not sure he is a no name player, good premiership defender perhaps. Again it's not something that can cause serious injuries of the head, kneck spinal cord or internal organs. Still feal the tribunal has been inconsistent with this ignoerd...

Big difference between a partial dislocation and dislocation, something which would have happened before, likely more than once if his shoulder is in the state it's in. Has happened to guys like Jamison a number of times already this season in play and countless others. Any way the Judd issue...

You see, anyone who makes the decision to bump a player going for the mark as the intent to injure. That's always been a classic dirty act. If wellingham hit him without his arm tucked in and hit with his body not shoulder, for example a body spoil, it would have been fine. Come on, we are...

My thread is more about the inconsistancy of the AFL tribunal and how players aren't necessarily getting penalised for their actions and the result of their actions. I use these things as an example because I believe it's bleeding obvious which incident is worse that the other. For example...

Ok Ziebell got 4 weeks for this, yes it was bad because Ziebell got off the ground and collected the head of Joseph and the player was concussed and I believe broke a jaw so maybe it warranted the 4 weeks. But, how could this be deemed worse than the Wellingham/Simpson issue and equal to the...