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put your money where your mouth is and do it
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AFL should bring in video reviews for free kicks/non-calls like they do in the EPL.
jannissary
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and waste more time?
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how is it a waste of time?
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I'd like a challenge system in place not sure how and what types of actions you should be allowed to challege though. However with the caveat that if you are wrong a 25m penalty is enforced
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Not against this
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how long would each review take? can teams challenge? what technology could be used to fairly judge the validity of the free kick?
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Similar to the below but adapted for AFL
The English Premier League uses a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system to review decisions in four key areas: goals, penalty incidents, red card incidents, and mistaken identity. For subjective decisions, VAR intervenes only if there is a "clear and obvious error". The referee is the ultimate decision-maker and can either overturn their original decision after a review or allow play to restart based on the VAR's advice. For offside decisions, the league now uses a semi-automated VAR system for greater speed and accuracy.
How the VAR system works
- Initial review: The VAR automatically checks every goal for any potential infringements that were missed in real-time.
- Clear and obvious errors: For subjective calls, the VAR will only intervene if the on-field referee's decision is deemed a "clear and obvious error".
- Referee's role: The VAR communicates with the referee at the next stoppage, but the referee makes the final decision after potentially using the pitchside monitor to review the incident themselves.
- Subjective vs. objective: The "clear and obvious error" standard applies to subjective calls like penalties or red cards. For factual decisions like offside, the intervention is more direct.
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Isn't VAR almost universally disliked, rarely overturns a bad decision, and generally nitpicks great moments. Video Review in Rugby Union is another disaster, the excitement of a great moment is almost always whisked away by some borderline penalty 2 minutes ago. Cricket is the only sport where it has any success and that is a 'turn based' sport so to say, rather than a free flowing experience, and therefore is damaged less by interruptions in play. Plus it's a sport where the little things matter - a lot.
The excitement of a game is not in having every decision made 100% right, it is in letting the game flow and moments occur naturally. Over refereeing and reviewing is the theif of what makes sport great.
If you want better umpiring, simplify the rules and stop introducing new ones...
jannissary
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i can see the value, but given the relatively shit work the goal cameras do in catching close goals most of the time, this'd obscure the water even more (in my eyes) until the AFL actually invests in better technology
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We need multiball
It's invasion games 101. If you want to clog it up, shrink the space or add more players. If you want to open it up, remove players or make the area bigger. The field size hasn't changed for 100 years and hasnt kept up with the modern athletes that play the game, and can't become bigger. They clearly want to open the game up, but keep installing rules that people hate.
AFL doesn't have enough teams for zones to work.
I like the idea of all teams play each other once (rotate year to year home and away). Then break the comp into 3 divisions, top 6, 7-12, 13-18.
Top 6 fighting to be top 4, fantastic games at the end of the year, leading into finals.
7-12 fighting for position 7 & 8.
13-18 positions in draft locked. Play for something like Pick 19 or pride (loser cup). At least the games will be competitive.
Netballers stop with the ball, zones really won't work with running players.
are they deliberately trying to screw the game ?
or is it plain stupidity ?
Who cares? All good if you can cram a few more SportsBet ads in.
So if you are within 5m of a mark or a free kick a player must stand?
What?
What does that mean?
So if a player takes a pack mark against three opponents.......they all stand there?
While their opponents run and spread.
If a player gets a free for in the back with multiple players piling on they all stand there like naughty boys?
This one will be the "whipping boy rule change" for 2026.
And to think people get paid to make this crap up.
What?
What does that mean?
So if a player takes a pack mark against three opponents.......they all stand there?
While their opponents run and spread.
If a player gets a free for in the back with multiple players piling on they all stand there like naughty boys?
This one will be the "whipping boy rule change" for 2026.
And to think people get paid to make this crap up.
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Why would it go to an ad break?
They're not reversing the decision. The run up is nowhere near as big as it used to be. Won't be that big of an issue
Removing interpretations from the sport would go a long way towards this
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- Goal square starting positions - Nothing to adjust to on this one
- Last disposal rules - Should have come in last year. Please everyone do not call this "Last Touch" which is very misleading
- Centre ball-up contests - Should have been introduced around 6 years ago when umpires requested the change
- Aligned kick-in times - Nothing to adjust with this one either.
- Ruck nominations - This will have to be practiced preseason on how your club will handle it. Not sure this one was needed but TV commentators like Brian Taylor have been on about this for years. Now it's in, let's see how it changes things. I am more concerned about how it will work, rather than the smallish amount of time it will save
- Shrugging in the tackle - See below. This interpretation will have the usual 50% of the crowd wanting a free with the other 50% wanting a free going the other way.
- The stand rule - See below
A couple of observations below.
Some posters really need to read the rule first before making a comment or believing other media articles on how they perceive the changes.
Shrugging: This is now classed as "prior opportunity" and is now among the other examples the AFL have deemed "prior" over the years
Part of the prior rule is in Part B Laws of the Game (Definitions).
The other in Part D. They may change it, but it could fall under (b). Or they just add "shrugging" under (b)
1-1 DEFINITIONS
For anyone trying to find this all Definitions are listed in A- Z order
Prior Opportunity: a designation to a Player in Possession of the Football who:
(a) is balanced and steady; or
(b) attempts to evade or fend an opponent; or
(c) has taken a Mark or been awarded a Free Kick; or
(d) has driven their head into a stationary or near stationary opponent.
below is the other mention of the prior rule in Part D.
18.6.2 Free Kicks - Holding the Ball: Prior Opportunity Where a Player in Possession of the Football has had Prior Opportunity, a field Umpire shall award a Free Kick if that Player does not Correctly Dispose of the football immediately when they are Legally Tackled.
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Stand change: I think it could be a change of interpretation of the previous interpretation in 2021. Or a minor rule change.
(Taken from History of rule changes/interpretations: Date change 2021- The player standing the mark permitted minimal lateral movement before a play-on call. The defensive team no longer permitted to substitute the person standing the mark. A 50m penalty awarded for infringements.)
I think the rule (15.3 & 20.1 below) could stay as is. Just enforce it with no interpretation
Below the actual rules on "the mark" and "standing the mark".
I think Swanny explained it well enough. The umpire will call/nominate the correct player. 20.1 (b)
The rule as @ 2025
15.3 LOCATION OF THE MARK Where a field Umpire is of the opinion that a Player has taken a Mark, the field Umpire shall award the Mark to the Player at the location on the Playing Surface where the Mark was taken. This location on the Playing Surface is known as The Mark.
20.1 STANDING THE MARK AND THE PROTECTED AREA 20.1.1 Standing The Mark When a Player is awarded a Mark or Free Kick, one Player from the opposing Team may:
(a) stand on The Mark; or
(b) otherwise be directed by a field Umpire.
For the avoidance of doubt, all other Players from the opposing Team must be positioned behind The Mark or otherwise outside the Protected Area defined in Law 20.1.2.
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How does this work if a player takes a big pack mark? All opposition players just have to stand where they were when it was marked? Sounds so dumb
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