Throws

[Handyandy]

Tonight I saw 2 very obvious throws. Crows players tapped the ball on to advantage with an open palmed shovel in general play and lifted the ball off the ground to a teammates advantage

Now when I played footy an open palmed tap on was ok so long as you didn’t lift the ball off 0 degrees heading. Both these balls had lift and sling but no hit, but were deemed ok

Have the rules changed???

Can you now shovel the ball up between your legs with both hands? Like at a volleyball camp with mates

I am teaching my kids the fundamentals of Aussie rules and we are unfortunate enough to have to suffer through a game of “AFL” umpire every week sadly. It is very painful and frustrating as my kids said there appear to be no consistent rules or adjudication
and my kids are like that’s a free
It’s a free at local level
It’s a free everytime
But now it’s ok?????? At afl level??
So that’s why we have switched to basketball
But for arguments sake, can you legally shovel a ball between your legs with two open palms and lift it very obviously into your teammates path??,??

 

[matthew_s]

Game would be easier to umpire if you could only punch, handball and tap in ruck contests.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Game would be easier to umpire if you could only punch, handball and tap in ruck contests.

I've been thinking that for a while. Way, way back it was clear rucks could scoop the ball in ways that were a throw anywhere else on the ground. And there was no separate rule, just agreed lenency bordering on totally ignoring the rule.
Sionce then its been eased as a rule across the ground. Scoops, throws, and even plain hand-offs, are regularly deemed legal.

One of the reasons for that may simply be the pact at AFL level c0ompared to local footy. Umpires can't pay what they can't see, and the pace at AFL level means even with four umpires actually seeing what is happening is not easy. Cameras often are getting 20 angles, umpires doon't get that many.
And the answer is not even more umpires, and more interpretations of the sport's very nebulous rules which are open to interpretation and attempted mind-reading in a split second.

 

[matthew_s]

I've been thinking that for a while. Way, way back it was clear rucks could scoop the ball in ways that were a throw anywhere else on the ground. And there was no separate rule, just agreed lenency bordering on totally ignoring the rule.
Sionce then its been eased as a rule across the ground. Scoops, throws, and even plain hand-offs, are regularly deemed legal.

One of the reasons for that may simply be the pact at AFL level c0ompared to local footy. Umpires can't pay what they can't see, and the pace at AFL level means even with four umpires actually seeing what is happening is not easy. Cameras often are getting 20 angles, umpires doon't get that many.
And the answer is not even more umpires, and more interpretations of the sport's very nebulous rules which are open to interpretation and attempted mind-reading in a split second.

So many rules should be simplified.