Headbutting hips.

[*PAF]

Looks as if players will start doing it more and more.
Will the AFL have to introduce a new rule next year to stop the trend?

 

[chrisvu]

Looks as if players will start doing it more and more.
Will the AFL have to introduce a new rule next year to stop the trend?

If you ask me..... if you put your head down/duck your head, you deserve to get it taken off. Too many players now trying to win free kicks by ducking their heads.

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

Yep, tinker with the rules and players will work out ways to exploit it.

The current ducking the head is a disgrace. If a players ducks his head and gets tackled it should immediately be holding the ball.

Are we protecting the players with these interpretations or are we making it more likely for a player to get injured as they now know if they go in head first they're likely to get a free?

 

[*PAF]

Williams today looked as if he ducked his head then made a beeline for the nearest set of hips he could see.
Even went sideways to make contact. Got a free and scored a goal.

 

[Grimreepah]

Yep, tinker with the rules and players will work out ways to exploit it.

The current ducking the head is a disgrace. If a players ducks his head and gets tackled it should immediately be holding the ball.

Are we protecting the players with these interpretations or are we making it more likely for a player to get injured as they now know if they go in head first they're likely to get a free?

Exactly.

 

[Crissy_v]

If you ask me..... if you put your head down/duck your head, you deserve to get it taken off. Too many players now trying to win free kicks by ducking their heads.

I agree, that thing today where the channel 10 commentators said there should have been a free kick was rightly adjudged by the umpires,(i'm not sure who was involved) when a melbourne players head came into contact with a hawks players side, the hawthorn player was on the ground B4 the demons player. I think as already stated when players get the ball some of them run at a would be tackler with their head down deliberatly to draw a free kick, its crap, it should be treated as ducking into a tackle and no free kick awarded.

 

[possum8]

Hawthorn were doing last week and continued the trend this week. To bad Chance Bateman wasn't playing this week he could of doubled hawthorns free's

 

[Ported]

There was one yesterday where there was a loose ball low to the ground, Salopek and Thomas were running at it from opposite angles. Thomas slid straight into Salopek's legs and was awarded a free. The only think Sal could do was dive away from the contest, effectively punished for keeping his feet.

 

[Frederlick]

This an indicator of how little intellectual rigour the AFL applies to its various processes. It is a well known fact that everytime a rule, process or system is changed those within it will find a way to exploit that change for an unintended advantage, hence a paradox is created. In the AFL it should be called the 'paradox of rule change'. Essentially the lesson is that you can't change something without having to deal with unintended consequences. The more often rules change, the quicker people devise ways to exploit them. These types of paradox's are present in systems much more advanced than the AFL rules, and yet the AFL still don't realise that are better off consistently enforcing existing rules than trying to introduce/interpret new ones. I'am not of the opinion that sportsmen are by their nature dullards, so please prove me right AFL and look at your systems and apply consistency throughout. Fans in all clubs are united in their frustration, particularly with the tribunal and field umpiring. Not one of your BS rules at the tribunal has made it any more consistent. How does this sound, if a player can show 3 previous occassions when another player has esacped sanction for a similar charge he can get 100 points off. Come on why not make the tribunal even more complicated than it already is? Fools! We don't care if our team loses out in the free kick count as long as it is consistent.

 

[Smokin]

a very obvious trend. Id do it if I was out there.

When will the AFL/rules comitte realise that players and coaches are not robots, no matter how they change any rule or interpretation, sooner or later, it will be manipulated to some sort of extent.

This whole no touching the head , deliberatly or not, is just too soft and not realistic in a contact sport.

 

[Crissy_v]

a very obvious trend. Id do it if I was out there.

When will the AFL/rules comitte realise that players and coaches are not robots, no matter how they change any rule or interpretation, sooner or later, it will be manipulated to some sort of extent.

This whole no touching the head , deliberatly or not, is just too soft and not realistic in a contact sport.

yes, too true, I honestly get so frustrated I punch things, the rules commitee=lowest form of life in this world, they're probably NRL ppl giving league fans and excuse to call AFL soft.