The game is a mess, and instead of turfing these new rules and saying " we ****** up, they are not working " they will keep them and then introduce more rules to counter the new old rules further ******* it up.
This is all they had to do instead of bringing in new rules
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tigernsw said, get rid of the ruck nomination and just penalise the 3rd man up, let the teams work out who rucks. I watched the replay of wednesday and at one stage the umpire was waiting for Nank and Gawn to arrive from up the field for a stoppage ball up.
Slide rule aka below the knees....horribly exploited by the smart players who just into a player getting the hardball on the ground. Penalise the player who actually slides in feet/knees first.
Use common damn sense when judging free kicks, FFS afl just let the umpires umpire to how they see the game not to what you want the game to ******* look like.
Now for the new over reactive rules.
Get rid of 6-6-6, who gives a shit if teams want to park players down back at centre bounces to stem the flow or run players off the back of the square to create overlap. Dangerfield and Geelong rule pure and simple who had too much say on this rule IMO.
Let runners back out on the ground, if they get in the way then penalise that runners team, it's not that hard and they will soon get out and back off trust me.
Make the players kicking out after a behind kick to themselves first and from the square, it's not working for it's intended purpose of coast to coast and up the guts, oppo backlines just don't need to push up as far anymore hence most teams slow play from defence.