I agree with the idea, somewhere above of fines being issued for staging. The following penalties would eradicate staging.
5% of annual contract for staging in H&A season + 50 metre penalty
10% for staging in Finals + free in the goal to oppo team.
Staging/diving is a disgusting blight on the game. Most clubs have one or two players that try it on. One or two clubs have professional divers.
Problem is with fines and things how would it be if the Shuey thing, that looked almost like a natural movement , and both players with bended knees, be made an infringement to the bloke with the ball.,
Also staging with absolute maximum know how like Selwood does, he has developed that into his skill and plays on it and he'd wind up not playing full stop, because he does it without even thinking. What I reckon is needed is the rule looked at totally and if the hands or arms of the tackler wind up actually gripping or grabbing the neck or shoulder then only then its a free, and I mean actually having hold of the bloke above the shoulder or on the neck, with no eror for judgement, the tackle actually has to be holding on, like as before you just had to touch above the shoulder with a finger even and it was deemed a free. That was bad enough but now they've changed it , to stop the duck it has just gotten worse.
In this game how are you supposed to lay a perfect legal tackle coming out of a pack in traffic everywhere , it is very rare to see in those conditions a tackle and the bloke with the ball not try to release his arms to give the ball off. Its natural.
And these days the bloody umpires let the tackles and packs go forever, it becomes an umpires own personal decision WHAT EVER happens, or he sees to dtermin whether its a legal tackle or a legal dodge, that is why the rules should never have been introduced in such a stupid fashion , the head high with the fear of litigation for head injuries drove this insanity which has changed the rules and the game to a load of frustration.
Every one of us on here, can only say, maybe it was a free maybe it wasn't ,that thinking should not be there at all, we should be able to tell if a player is caught , or pushed in the back or drops the ball or is flung tackled to the ground and how hard, or is scragged around the neck , to me unfortunately to the umpire as well Shuey got scragged , but gee wiz watching the video over and over who knows these days.
Because the AFL have screwed with everything , and they will have the blame, rightly so, levelled at them totally, because we have allowed these dictators who have f****d up this sport top get away with murdering what we used to call the best game in the world, well it has dropped off and is a fraud sometimes.
I still say we need the AFL disbanded and the clubs take back our game, and someone like a Kerry Packer take over the reigns and not allow any more fiddling.
Because I tell you in 5 years you won't recognise it. Sometimes when it is pack ridden , you don't recognise it.
And when we're all here arguing about a free, well that happens every week more than once when in the past maybe twice or so a year.
Yes I do love this game, but its losing its character and what it should be. For money !
And two new idiotic ideas.
Called GC and GWS. The standard is lowered.