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AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Fair call on changing the rules, but I don't know how much it would cost to "get right" and would there be better ways to spend that money?No way …. We should not change the rules to accommodate for a league not willing to invest in technology. Get the technology right and we won’t have a problem.
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Aussie rules is the only sport with a clean goal ruleAs much as I love the sport, all the rules around the scoring system are fairly bonkers when you think about it.
"Goal-based sports" (for want of a better term) don't usually have so many restrictions about how the ball gets in the goal.
That Sheezel review just now is the perfect example of this. Who cares if he got an arm on the ball in that situation. Just pay the goal.Yep. Happy for little touches to be allowed as a goal too. We let 4 different hands touch it in a pack mark and still call it a mark. Who cares if a finger nail hit the ball on its way through sticks. If it goes in just make it a goal. Obvious exception to being punched through the goals.
If we were creating the sport from scratch, certainly. As it is now, with so much history in there, maybe. It certainly would make things clearer outside the pro level where reviews are available. But it is fundamental to the game for a very long time.I've said this for a while, if the ball goes through the goals, even if it comes off the post, should be a goal. That is how it is in soccer and rugby and just takes away one element where mistakes are made.