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http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/eade-slams-afl-over-interchange-20100811-11zp1.html

''It's crap. How can you include changes at the breaks? It's bullshit.
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http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/lethal-calls-for-players-to-stay-in-zones-20100811-11zp6.html

At the same time, get out of our game Leigh Matthews.

FOOTBALL should trial a rule that requires eight players to be retained at each end of the ground at any one moment to eliminate the congestion that is becoming a blight on the game, according to Leigh Matthews

He said teams should be inhibited from following Collingwood's tactical lead of a full-team press to the forward zone to congest play and block the ball's release from the attacking area
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It's pretty clear that the AFL Rules Committee hate Collingwood.
 
Can only hope Malthouse, Scott, Clarkson and other coaches have the balls to come out as strongly as Eade has against it.
 
The Panther said:
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/eade-slams-afl-over-interchange-20100811-11zp1.html



http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/lethal-calls-for-players-to-stay-in-zones-20100811-11zp6.html

At the same time, get out of our game Leigh Matthews.



It's pretty clear that the AFL Rules Committee hate Collingwood.
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Not sure about that last comment and it's undertones of conspiracy but yeah :thumbsd: to the rule changes mooted for the interchange.

The AFL have really lost it on this one.
 
The AFL still can't seem to give us rock solid proof that the rotations are causing more injurys....they just seem to beat around the bush and never give a staright answer.

They make the game faster but now want to slow it down because it suits them.....seriously does my head in.
 

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Rodney backpeddled at a fair rate of knots this morning on SEN, but I don't doubt he would have said it, such is the pile of excrement that it is.

Such fickle decisions just screw years of preparation, not to mention recruitment decisions. How will Luke Ball fair now with this cap? Not too bloody well. Will we see players like Sidebottom played as can only contributed @65% TOG in 1st year, owing to building up the tank.

This rule f*cking reeks, and what really gets me are the knob-ends making this rule. Don't worry about sports science, we've got Kevin Bartlett.
 
Also, if the interchange caps come in, which seems certain in some form, backup (or second) ruckman are dead in the AFL.

We may as well delist one of Wood or Fraser, because no one else will take them either now, and with Leeroy and Jolly, there is no need for more then one VFL ruckman.

The AFL (or AAFL -Adrian Anderson FL) is slowly tearing the game apart, the game I grew up playing, the game I love.

Also in regards to the all posts being "live" in play, WHAT BULLSHIT, as Dunstall pointed out, WHY THE **** DON'T WE JUST PLAY SOCCER.:thumbsd:

I just hate the fact that the AFL makes these changes (some have already been decided on) without the consultation of the people who really matter in the game, the players and the fans.

And yes, Kevin Bartlett and his joke of a rules committee should be disbanded, because the fact their is a rules committee means rules are going to change every year.

NO MORE RULE CHANGES, AT LEAST FOR 2 YEARS, WOULD MAKE SENSE, but then again, "sense" and the AFL don't exactly go well together.

Gratz Rodney, although it seems the AFL got to you too before your SEN spot this morning.
 
mattys123 said:
Also, if the interchange caps come in, which seems certain in some form, backup (or second) ruckman are dead in the AFL.

We may as well delist one of Wood or Fraser, because no one else will take them either now, and with Leeroy and Jolly, there is no need for more then one VFL ruckman.

The AFL (or AAFL -Adrian Anderson FL) is slowly tearing the game apart, the game I grew up playing, the game I love.

Also in regards to the all posts being "live" in play, WHAT BULLSHIT, as Dunstall pointed out, WHY THE **** DON'T WE JUST PLAY SOCCER.:thumbsd:

I just hate the fact that the AFL makes these changes (some have already been decided on) without the consultation of the people who really matter in the game, the players and the fans.

And yes, Kevin Bartlett and his joke of a rules committee should be disbanded, because the fact their is a rules committee means rules are going to change every year.

NO MORE RULE CHANGES, AT LEAST FOR 2 YEARS, WOULD MAKE SENSE, but then again, "sense" and the AFL don't exactly go well together.

Gratz Rodney, although it seems the AFL got to you too before your SEN spot this morning.
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Sorry to jump in here but +1:thumbsu: What the hell is going on!
 
adamov13 said:
The AFL still can't seem to give us rock solid proof that the rotations are causing more injurys....they just seem to beat around the bush and never give a staright answer.

They make the game faster but now want to slow it down because it suits them.....seriously does my head in.
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Anderson was on Eddies radio show today and said that from their studies they discovered the more your opponent rotates the more likely ot is you'll get an injury to a player on your side. Seriously WTF

Eddie brought up our injuries have decreased since we have done it, and word out of Melbourne says the same. Anderson replied yes our studies suggest you get a small period of no injuries, Ed asked if 2 years is a small period no answer
 
Optimax said:
Anderson was on Eddies radio show today and said that from their studies they discovered the more your opponent rotates the more likely ot is you'll get an unity to a player on your side. Seriously WTF

Eddie brought up our injuries have decreased since we have done it, and word out of Melbourne says the same. Anderson replied yes our studies suggest you get a small period of no injuries, Ed asked if 2 years is a small period no answer
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LOL.

We need to have a "debate" with worm and all so we can watch Adrian melt into his own sweat pool.
 
If you have ever had the displeasure of listening to KB's radio show it is clear that "the look of the game" is the driving force behind this and that the injuries issue is just the way they are trying to justify it. They have borrowed heavily from rugby studies that have little to relevance when compared to AFL and have secret studies that seem to contradict all clubs studies. The contradictions when they talk about the injury reasoning is non-sensical.

"You are more likely to get an injury to your players if your opposition rotate more" then how about you rotate more yourself? Doesn't that suggest more rotations = less injury? Wouldn't more fatigue = more injury?
 
What you want out of the AFL is to be good custodians of the game. They are renters who think they own the joint.

Sure, keep it in good trim, keep the lawns clipped, mop the floor, water the garden - those type of things. No-one gave you permission to smash down walls and paint your ugly frescoes everywhere.

The smugness, the arrogance is really shitting me. This pretence of taking on board opinions, what a wank. Yeah, 'power to the people', groovy man.
 

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Old Spice said:
What you want out of the AFL is to be good custodians of the game. They are renters who think they own the joint.

Sure, keep it in good trim, keep the lawns clipped, mop the floor, water the garden - those type of things. No-one gave you permission to smash down walls and paint your ugly frescoes everywhere.

The smugness, the arrogance is really shitting me. This pretence of taking on board opinions, what a wank. Yeah, 'power to the people', groovy man.
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Fancy a molotov dear?
 

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Hawthorn have also reported that their injury rate/list is at it's lowest in 6 years. All since they started rotating more.
 
It absolutely staggers me that the AFL and their dinosaur-led rules committee can go about making changes without any input from the clubs.

Rule changes should be put to a vote among clubs, and not just left to a handful of people who haven't played/coached the game for 30 odd years, or in AA's case, never.

It is bullshit.
 
This is IMO an on-going thing, since around the time the old fashioned traditional "flood" was heavily used the AFL have been concerened for how the game was played and felt the need to be heavy handed rather then let the game evolve naturally. They introduced the immediate kick in to try and speed the game up aswell as tinkering with balling the ball up quicker when it was congested. The idea being if the ball was always in motion teams wouldn't have the time to flood back, it would also stop players "resting" on the ground and make it harder for them to have the stamina to flood back and forth.

The AFL's rule changes had little to no success but the teams figured out (as will almost always happen) an attacking counter to the zone, teams like Geelong and the Dogs realised that run and carry and hand balling would allow for quick ball movement foward and the ball constantly moving foward is quicker then the players running back, as such they effectively busted the flood. Since then the "frontal pressure" type defence that St Kilda and us use have become the fashionable defence. Once again rather then waiting for the game to evolve the AFL want to be heavy handed and change the game. There changes as an attempt to keep the game the same are really just holding the game back.

The game is in a better state then it ever has been the overall level of skill is better then it ever has been (although this is sure to drop as the extra teams come in thinning out the talent pool) if we want to keep a romantic notion of what the game is all about how about we re-introduce the shirt front and let the guys belt each other?
 
Mickaman said:
Hasn't half their team been injured for the majority of the last 2 seasons.
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Should have clarified over the past 2 months they stated.

The more the AFL change the rules the more coaches etc will come up with ideas to use those rules to their advantage.

Just need to let the game evolve for itself. Interchange rotations does not detract form the spectacle.

If they bring this in (a cap) you'll get far more flooding (players can rest in the backline in front of leading targets), consistent loose man or 2 in defence (to reduce scoring while guys get a breather) and plenty of 'tempo' footy while teammates take a quick breather on the field.

The rotations have nearly hit there peak anyway. AFL coaches are more clever then a handful of nuffies on the Laws of the game committee and will overcome any rule change, and then that will require another rule change to fix it.
 

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