didaksrightfoot
Premiership Player
- Sep 12, 2013
- 4,902
- 5,555
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- SA Spurs, Juventus
(Mods feel free to move this, but I couldn't find a thread on this on the 1st 5 pages of the rules board)
Serious (but probably dumb) Question:
Why do we have the "in the back" rule for tackles?
It is one of the things that infuriates me the most about umpiring of games. A defender could put in an awesome chase and do everything right until that point, and then just because of the way he lands the tackle, or, (and more annoyingly) the way the player falls - he gets pinged for in the back and the tackled player gets rewarded.
It is also very common to see the guy being tackled drop their knees, or just fling themselves forward, in the hope of getting this call (often instead of HTB).
It just seems like a big price to pay and I dont actually understand why.
To add that, growing up I always played soccer and basketball, and the only 2 games of footy ive ever played have been casual inter-year games at Uni (where I was almost entirely useless).
I can understand that it may be poor tackling technique, but not why that deserves to be a free kick?
Is it deemed to have a higher rate of injury? Is it just because its seen as bad technique?
Does this infuriate everyone else, or is there something very fundamental to the rules of the game that I have completely missed?
Serious (but probably dumb) Question:
Why do we have the "in the back" rule for tackles?
It is one of the things that infuriates me the most about umpiring of games. A defender could put in an awesome chase and do everything right until that point, and then just because of the way he lands the tackle, or, (and more annoyingly) the way the player falls - he gets pinged for in the back and the tackled player gets rewarded.
It is also very common to see the guy being tackled drop their knees, or just fling themselves forward, in the hope of getting this call (often instead of HTB).
It just seems like a big price to pay and I dont actually understand why.
To add that, growing up I always played soccer and basketball, and the only 2 games of footy ive ever played have been casual inter-year games at Uni (where I was almost entirely useless).
I can understand that it may be poor tackling technique, but not why that deserves to be a free kick?
Is it deemed to have a higher rate of injury? Is it just because its seen as bad technique?
Does this infuriate everyone else, or is there something very fundamental to the rules of the game that I have completely missed?
Last edited: