Rules AFL to propose introduction of last touch rule from 2026

[Sam_100]

So does this mean insufficient intent will be done away? Logical questions that follow are:

• Does it also mean last touch within the arcs regardless of intent will be a throw in?
• If you are within the arc and the ball goes out of bounds between the arcs is it a free?
• If you are between the arcs and the ball goes out of bounds within the arc is it a free?
• What if a player is near or on the line on the arc and it goes out is it a free or not? Are the umps going to a video replay to determine whether it is a free or throw in which will add more delay to the game?

This rule looks like it will add another layer of interpretation and make it make it more challenging for the umpires to adjudicate.

Just leave the bloody game alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[57 Milner]

So does this mean insufficient intent will be done away? Logical questions that follow are:

• Does it also mean last touch within the arcs regardless of intent will be a throw in?
• If you are within the arc and the ball goes out of bounds between the arcs is it a free?
• If you are between the arcs and the ball goes out of bounds within the arc is it a free?
• What if a player is near or on the line on the arc and it goes out is it a free or not? Are the umps going to a video replay to determine whether it is a free or throw in which will add more delay to the game?

This rule looks like it will add another layer of interpretation and make it make it more challenging for the umpires to adjudicate.

Just leave the bloody game alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It's a lot less controversial.

 

[Vindicater]

Look forward to players hand balling into opposition feet for a rebound over the line near the boundary line.

Not how the rule works but okay.

 

[HairyO]

Not how the rule works but okay.

So we need another layer of technicalities... sounds awesome !

 

[Vindicater]

So we need another layer of technicalities... sounds awesome !

It works very well in the SANFL.

Basically don't kick or handball it out of bounds without someone else touching it.

 

[Vindicater]

Well maybe but it's a relatively easy fix. However I do recall the Amon one a week ago for the Hawks causing some discontent. That one would be a throw in with the last touch rules because it wasn't between the arcs.

In SANFL that would have been a free. They don't have the between the arcs rule that the AFLW have..

 

[HairyO]

It works very well in the SANFL.

Basically don't kick or handball it out of bounds without someone else touching it.

Just a guess but SANFL would be just a little slower than the AFL.

 

[Great8]

Was very skeptical of the rule when the SANFL first introduced it but as someone who attends most weeks and watches all other games online I love the rule and all our local footy over here has introduced it so after a decade or so it’s just the norm now

 

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It's a lot less controversial.

If the rule is implemented to apply across the whole ground like it appears to be in the SANFL then all good. It will remove the ambiguity of an umpire trying to read the mind of a player and determine what their intent was.

But it looks like the AFL will implement a modified form of this rule, to only apply between the arcs, which will introduce additional complexity hence my questions.

 

[Do the Dew]

Also sounds like the sub is going and now there'll be 5 on the bench. That's good.

But no mention of the worst rule in footy, ****ing STAND. Should've been the first rule that got scrapped.

 

[Run n Spread]

Here's an idea. Stop ****ing about with the rules.
Put a 10 year monotorium in place.
Leave the game as is.

 

[GoldbergsGold]

Should be getting rid of all the stupid "steeeeeend" and protected area rules ruining the sport. The leniency of the rules and creativity from players from over 20 years is being undermined. A Daniel Wells

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Jackie Chan goal is illegal now for example.

 

[57 Milner]

In SANFL that would have been a free. They don't have the between the arcs rule that the AFLW have..

Good point that original article at the beginning of the thread didn't draw that distinction.

“All these things have to be approved by the commission. But there will be recommendations put forward and that will be one that we adopt,” Swann said.
“We do it in AFLW, the SANFL does it, it’s between the arcs and it’s a kick or a handball.
“The stats show on the games played that there would only be two extra free kicks a game. It’s not a big change, but it’s a tough call for the umps sometimes and we’re almost there anyway.”

The SANFL version still has some areas that require interpretation though. However, it should reduce some of the ambiguity around player intentions though.

 

[Headless]

Also sounds like the sub is going and now there'll be 5 on the bench. That's good.

But no mention of the worst rule in footy, ****ing STAND. Should've been the first rule that got scrapped.

Yet another ploy from the CFL to keep the Tigers down.

 

[JuniorWatch]

Good point that original article at the beginning of the thread didn't draw that distinction.

“All these things have to be approved by the commission. But there will be recommendations put forward and that will be one that we adopt,” Swann said.
“We do it in AFLW, the SANFL does it, it’s between the arcs and it’s a kick or a handball.
“The stats show on the games played that there would only be two extra free kicks a game. It’s not a big change, but it’s a tough call for the umps sometimes and we’re almost there anyway.”

The SANFL version still has some areas that require interpretation though. However, it should reduce some of the ambiguity around player intentions though.

Slaps it deliberately over the boundary line.... throw in.
Pre insufficient intent or do they not have it?

 

[Do the Dew]

Yet another ploy from the CFL to keep the Tigers down.

Lmao, nothing more to it than the fact it's a shit rule and hasn't done what the CFL said it would do.

I especially loved in the GWS Hawks final that Hawthorn were getting completely dominated in general play, until the umpire paid them a crap 50m penalty for a stand rule violation and got them going.

I have serious concerns for anyone who thinks the umpires yelling stand and infractions for moving a toenail is good for the game.

 

[Black Diamond]

First, this is a change proposed by people who need to justify their own jobs.

Second, if it happens expect the lower rebuilding teams to be thrashed worse than ever before. This will get very ugly very quickly.

Third, will kill off ruckmen.

 

[Great8]

Third, will kill off ruckmen.

How so?
Reduces boundary throw ins by 20-30% tops.

 

[Sentinel]

Given he still hasn't worked out the 2017 update, how many more seasons will it take Brian Taylor to figure out the rule has changed before he stops asking "HOW CAN THAT BE DELIBERATE?!?!?!"

 

[Bostonian]

So they are saying it will only result in 2 extra free kicks a game.

So why ****ing even bother with that stupid rule then if it's going to result in such a small amount of difference.

 

[joe444]

Greg Swann = Brsibane/Carlton/Collingwood ties

Over to you, Richmond fans ...

 

[Stars align]

It's not a free if it's rushed out of bounds. It's only a free when handpassed or kicked without touching anybody else.
Perhaps watch the AFLW this weekend to get an idea. It works pretty well.

Is there another way to see how the rule works

 

[Stars align]

Greg Swann = Brsibane/Carlton/Collingwood ties

Over to you, Richmond fans ...

The stand rule is far worse and much harder to officiate surely this deserves the same review as last touch

 

[caloschwaby]

It has to all come back to why there even is a boundary line in the first place - the game was first played on Yarra Park with no bounds to how wide the field was. Boundary lines were introduced to give space for spectators to safely watch and to draw a reasonable line as to how large the field ought to be based on the players' fitness.

There is nothing inherently wrong or ignoble about going out of bounds, I have no idea where the AFL thought this up. Deliberate out of bounds has been an awardable free kick since the 1880s for obvious reasons in preventing timewasting. The punishment for players makes no distinction between wayward kicks, tactically trying to gain territory, or players genuinely timewasting - in the eyes of insufficient intent, these are all the same action.

It's an utter shame we've let the game be controlled by TV suits in a number of areas of the game (since the ANF Commission lost its independence as custodians of the rules and was absorbed by the AFL, a for-profit entity) that do next to nothing to actually evolve the game. You see this with their bizarre obsession with shrinking the interchange caps every few years to "speed up the game", or whenever "hit the post, play on!" gets harped on about 10 times per season, not for any real reason, but "just coz".

 

[DaicosDisciple35]

This is actually a good rule change, it will work way better once the chip technology in the footballs is able to say without a doubt that the ball has gone out of bounds so we don’t spend ages reviewing it.

They probably should have held off until we had that tech though.