No reason why players using the interchange can't be used to relay important messages.
This New Runner/ Water Carrier Rule is F**ked!
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Reckon the Pies would wish this was in force last year
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I wonder what this will do to rotation numbers?
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This might be a stupid question but I haven't paid much attention during the pre-season. What's the rule with players getting injured and trainers being allowed on the ground. Does there have to a certain severity of injury before a trainer can come onto the ground to attend a player? Like if a player has a mild cramp can someone come on to the field to attend them or do they have to sort themselves out?
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I know your takin the piss but everytime a player fakes an injury they either walk over to the sideline an drink or they pull water bottles out of the trainers bag an drink.
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Surprised no club hasn't employed Goddard to do this. It is basically what he was doing for the past 3 years. Standing in the backline pointing where others should go.
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Which I still reckon is ridiculous. Yeo barely had to move, Stephenson probably wouldn’t have even made the contest.
The arrogance from the likes if Beveridge & Clarkson acting like this rule may not be implemented for the H&A season when Hocking has been emphatic on it just underlines how entitled they have become.
You know there was rule that awarded a team a free kick if the runner was in the path of the ball or was in the way of an opposing player, really don't know why teams didn't use this as way of advancing up the ground. Also this rule needed a clued on umpire to award the free kick, do this enough times and the runners would be off quick smart.
They will have to HTFU
It’s a long term overdue rule and as a result of being long overdue it’s possibly overdone but they’ll get over it.
I doubt anybody dies of thirst on the playing field because they don’t have the energy to run 20 metres to the nearest boundary line to grab a swig.
I doubt anybody dies of thirst on the playing field because they don’t have the energy to run 20 metres to the nearest boundary line to grab a swig.
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They just want runners to be able to direct play
Good luck Stewie Dew
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Wouldn’t be much running lol
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Beveridge: “Even the support, I spoke to one of the senior coaches, I won’t mention his name, the young bloke’s playing his second JLT game, stubbed his toe and got a direct turnover.
“He just wanted to get a runner out there to say ‘listen mate don’t worry about it, put it out of your mind, you’re going well.’”
http://aflnation.com.au/2019/03/19/beveridge-alarm-bells-are-ringing-on-afl-runner-restrictions/
How on earth will footy survive this travesty? That poor young bloke has probably been delisted and is working at Bunnings by now. All because no runners
“He just wanted to get a runner out there to say ‘listen mate don’t worry about it, put it out of your mind, you’re going well.’”
http://aflnation.com.au/2019/03/19/beveridge-alarm-bells-are-ringing-on-afl-runner-restrictions/
How on earth will footy survive this travesty? That poor young bloke has probably been delisted and is working at Bunnings by now. All because no runners
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One of the reasons why diving happens so often in soccer is because the players want a break. legit. It is why you see it a lot more on hot days. It is a stop of play and everyone goes towards the coach to get more info and a drink.
It isn't the only reason. Also slows momentum, wastes time and trying to win a free kick. very frustrating but there are reasons.
I like it. I am sure coaches will find a way to get information out. Perhaps they will use the old fashioned way of telling players entering the arena to send out messages at the same time.
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^^This. The AFL might often make s**t decisions regarding the rules, but this one is entirely on the coaches. The idiots even got a stay of execution on this last year, yet didn't bother to try and change the tactic.
Pretty sure water carriers already had pretty significant restrictions, this rule just brings those back a bit in line with the runner rule.
LukeParkerno1
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Well could be or the fact that soccer players are as soft as anything and worried about hurting their pinky finger.
I was over runners, praise the you know what they are in the past
Pretty much, the coaches knew the AFL didn’t like the runners being out there so often, and refused to change their operation of it. They obviously thought the AFL wouldn’t use the nuclear option and got their bluff called.
I think it’ll come back to a more reasonable level in the next year or two but the coaches are aware now that the AFL is serious about playing field congestion.
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I think the coaches might have been willing, but weren't going to go with unilateral disarmament....while the opposition team used it, they weren't going to give them an advantage, so they still used it, and because you had to have consistency between/during games, that meant they'd all always use it.
I don't want to see a free kick because the runner is too slow to leave the ground after a goal, I'm happy for some leeway there as long as the runner is heading off. 45 seconds could be 60+ or a warning.
Otherwise yep get rid of them, there's enough rotations now to sort it out.
Plenty of water on the bench or just wait for a goal.
Midfielders weren't exactly stopping for a drink whilst the ball was in play anyway nor are the days of the full forward having a drink whilst the ball leisurely sails to the other end of the ground a thing anymore.
Otherwise yep get rid of them, there's enough rotations now to sort it out.
Plenty of water on the bench or just wait for a goal.
Midfielders weren't exactly stopping for a drink whilst the ball was in play anyway nor are the days of the full forward having a drink whilst the ball leisurely sails to the other end of the ground a thing anymore.
Nice try Alistair.
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As a curiosity/aside...
Umpires fairly frequently stop team drinks carriers for a drink.
Might we see the extra time that takes lead to a drinks carrier staying on too long? Alternatively, might we see drinks carriers refusing to give umpires a drink because they're on the clock?
Umpires fairly frequently stop team drinks carriers for a drink.
Might we see the extra time that takes lead to a drinks carrier staying on too long? Alternatively, might we see drinks carriers refusing to give umpires a drink because they're on the clock?
