If you could get rid of one rule what would it be and why?

[Collywobblez]

I would get rid of push in the back because I believe it’s all part of the contest

Thoughts?

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Just go back to the old deliberate rule? Why did we change it?


And since when have we completely ignored kicking in danger?

 

[Grisha]

The umpires bouncing the ball up. Just throw it up so it doesn’t have to be recalled all the time.

 

[Anja_Nees]

Glass wall, ball can’t go out. Fired out of a cannon randomly after a goal.

 

[Randomizor]

Glass wall, ball can’t go out. Fired out of a cannon randomly after a goal.

So it’s fired in a random direction or just every so often fired from a cannon?

 

[juss]

Contact below the knees rule.
There is no other correct answer.

 

[exceptional design]

All umpire interpretation to do with any rules.

 

[Anja_Nees]

So it’s fired in a random direction or just every so often fired from a cannon?

I meant the former but intrigued by the latter.

 

[Cincinnatus]

Players who go for the footy and get done HTB.

If they drag it in, sure, but going for the ball to get there first should be protected.

Close second is contact below the knees and protected area when the player isnt trying to get involved.

 

[Underarm]

What ever rule that allows Collywobblez the ability to make bad threads?

 

[Knox Harrington]

Legalise tb-4

 

[Nop returns]

Contact below the knees rule.
There is no other correct answer.

This 1000 times.
Ruck nomination as well. Ump should throw the ball up immediately. Would clear congestion

 

[Devington]

The umpires bouncing the ball up. Just throw it up so it doesn’t have to be recalled all the time.

You do realise that this is exactly what the AFL wanted to do years ago but it was extremely unpopular with the public. Fast forward a few years and the umps have completely lost the ability to bounce the ball, and opinion is shifting. Really makes me think

 

[Bulldog1954]

The ten metre protected zone, it's an unecesary and useless rule.

 

[Truckosaurus]

And since when have we completely ignored kicking in danger?

It was briefly revived in Round 1 to deny Mark LeCras a goal at an important part of the match.

 

[emblurr]

Whatever the requirement that there has to be commentators on tv

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[Captivating]

Needing to elect a ruckman

 

[Bostonian]

The ten metre protected zone, it's an unecesary and useless rule.

This x infinity +1

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Agree if you drag it in but most of the time they are the only one going for it, other jump all over them and holding the ball is awarded. Rubbish rule. Half the time it's the guy on top holding it in

 

[Damp Squarie]

Goal Review.
It’s a joke and we got by for over a hundred years without it...get rid of it.
Some goal umpires just can’t make a decision on their own anymore because they either don’t position themselves correctly or they are intimidated by a field umpire wanting centre stage.

 

[Struggle]

3rd man up rule

 

[Tony Harrison]

Get rid of the goal review - goal umpire calls as he sees it.
3rd umpire watches cams closely to detect any obvious howlers and lets the field ump know.

 

[BallaratBulldog]

The ability for the Dogs to lose the game. Replaced by a rule where the umps can make it up so they can get the win.

 

[Captain Morgan]

Get rid of #freekickhawthorn

 

[BoxMatrix]

Goal Review.
It’s a joke and we got by for over a hundred years without it...get rid of it.
Some goal umpires just can’t make a decision on their own anymore because they either don’t position themselves correctly or they are intimidated by a field umpire wanting centre stage.

Their are many rules to criticize, but complaining about the goal review confuses me. Their have been countless times since the system has been implemented that the goal umpires original decision was overturned.

We never "got by" before the goal review system. Their were many instances where the goal umpire got it wrong... The Sharrod Wellinghan poster in the 2011 GF, Jarrad Waite's foot brushing against the ball against Essendon, the Shannon Byrnes horrible decision against Collingwood, or the Tom Hawkins poster in the 2009 GF(that was game changing). These all could have been avoided if the system was in place.

Could the system be improved? Yes. But should it be scrapped? Absolutely not.