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Runners sort of even the playing field for the younger less-experienced teams that don't have players with the experience to act as on-field coaches. Will make things tougher for those teams.
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Yeah great idea love this, will promote on-field leadership by players even more.
I disagree completely. Coaches are already banned from calling timeouts like they can in proper sports. It's like the AFL are trying to run them out of the game.https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...w-runner-rules-this-year-20180211-p4yzyf.html
This is a very good move by AFL, needs to be introduced ASAP. No other sport in the world where a coach is allowed to enter the field of play to tell players what they should be doing. They are a blight on the game, trying to explain to someone new to the game (like my 5yo daughter) the purpose of a runner makes you realise how useless they are. They block up space and get in the way... Get rid of them please.
every other sport in the world have time outs or are barking distance from players. Absolute s**t move and will build congestion and make our game worse offhttps://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...w-runner-rules-this-year-20180211-p4yzyf.html
This is a very good move by AFL, needs to be introduced ASAP. No other sport in the world where a coach is allowed to enter the field of play to tell players what they should be doing. They are a blight on the game, trying to explain to someone new to the game (like my 5yo daughter) the purpose of a runner makes you realise how useless they are. They block up space and get in the way... Get rid of them please.
every other sport in the world have time outs or are barking distance from players. Absolute s**t move and will build congestion and make our game worse off
By proper sports you mean American sports. Association Football, Rugby seem to do fine without runners or timeouts.I disagree completely. Coaches are already banned from calling timeouts like they can in proper sports. It's like the AFL are trying to run them out of the game.
Let the coaches coach and the runners run!
Oh No! Won't someone think of the children?!?!?!All it will do is hurt less experienced teams, and removing the runners does nothing to improve the game as no one was getting less enjoyment watching AFL because of the runners.
Yeah I'm sure its the AFL trying to keep the hawks down.They should f*** the runners off altogether. Clubs have been taking the piss for years.
Pretty good rule change, although like most rule changes, it does my club no favours at all.
It would've been MUCH better for Hawthorn if they'd scaled back the runners' involvement two years ago when we still had Hodge, Mitchell, Lewis and Gibson acting as virtual captain coaches out on the field. What an advantage that would've given us!!! But now those blokes have all left, we're a team in transition with a younger side and reduced on-field experience and leadership, more likely to need the runner out there pointing & telling the kids where they should be standing.
Thanks AFL
Good rule change for the experienced teams such as Sydney and Geelong who have plenty of older, wiser heads around the stoppages
Nice timing by Gillon and Hocking...
The coaches can chose to coach from the bench if its such a big deal...every other sport in the world have time outs or are barking distance from players. Absolute s**t move and will build congestion and make our game worse off
I am your opposite. I am usually happy to entertain the changes but this one doesn't enthuse me. I think runners are worth the incident or two per season they cause.
I don't want to see a game determined by a bit of role confusion between players.
Great move. Coaches will complaint but theyre the ones who abused runners by having them out there for basically the whole game guarding space.
Personally I'm in favour of getting rid of them entirely. Give the teams soccer style boards to call players to the bench
Why?? It will mean players have to be more accountable for team structures and leadership on field will become more important..
All it will do is hurt less experienced teams, and removing the runners does nothing to improve the game as no one was getting less enjoyment watching AFL because of the runners.
I disagree completely. Coaches are already banned from calling timeouts like they can in proper sports. It's like the AFL are trying to run them out of the game.
Let the coaches coach and the runners run!
Why? because presently we got role clarity, strategic agreement and confident execution at the cost of a mere one or two obstruction issues a year by runners. Why incur a more error prone game for such a tiny benefit?
Well if only the (then) VFL had 'left the bloody game alone' we would never had had runners in the first place! After 100 years of doing without them, it was only a rule change that saw them introduced in 1964 (though limited to delivering messages to captains and vice-captains only).Yep. I'm generally a 'leave the bloody game alone' type, but I've always wanted to get rid of the runners. Good move.