What rule would you Add/Remove/Change to improve the game?

[mick500]

Make the umpires wear a frilly ballet dress if they pay a free kick for dissent for the rest of the match.

 

[bradee]

Get rid of this stupid stand rule when standing on the msrk.I really hate this rule.

 

[Cuzz09]

Get rid of this stupid stand rule when standing on the msrk.I really hate this rule.

100% it's horrible and makes no sense

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[GhostofJimJess]

Last touch - why bother to smother the ball near the boundary line, or spoil a mark when it’s just going to result in a free kick to the opposition anyway.

And yet if a defender does a rejection in the NBA it's a massive play, even f the ball goes out.

A smother out of bounds stifles the attacking team's run of play. It could save a goal, or at worst, give time for the defense to get structured up.

 

[Freomaniac]

Better ways to deal with players with concussion.

Yes these players get paid a lot of money to get on the field. But they are humans like the rest of us too.

Physical and mental health issues are finally being talked about.

 

[terrybull]

And yet if a defender does a rejection in the NBA it's a massive play, even f the ball goes out.

A smother out of bounds stifles the attacking team's run of play. It could save a goal, or at worst, give time for the defense to get structured up.

They clap attempted goals in soccer as well, despite it not going in.

Can’t see AFL crowds cheering for giving away a free kick.

What’s the point spoiling a mark near the boundary, better just to stand on the mark than risk the effort or potential injury.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I always figured it was to give the players an idea of where they are kicking from. As a viewer it gives me a better idea of where a shot at goal is coming from.

It serves that purpose and for 50m penalties it makes it clearer where the man on the mark should be placed. The 30 and 70 metre penalty that sometimes seems to happen in the middle of the ground shouldn't happen inside or close to the arc (at the attacking end at least, where it is arguably more important).

 

[big_e]

Last touch - why bother to smother the ball near the boundary line, or spoil a mark when it’s just going to result in a free kick to the opposition anyway.

You could have it so it was a free only if the last touch was a kick or a handball, or if a player carried it over without prior opportunity to dispose of it. That way spoils or smothers are protected, and if you pick it up one step inside the boundary and can't stop yourself from going over you don't get pinged whilst trying to do the right thing (ie taking possession).

It kinda makes it like it is now but without any question of intent to keep it in, let alone how sufficient that intent was.

 

[Cuzz09]

Yes in SANFL spoils, knocks and disputed ball is thrown in in between the 50s

Works well imo.

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[terrybull]

You could have it so it was a free only if the last touch was a kick or a handball, or if a player carried it over without prior opportunity to dispose of it. That way spoils or smothers are protected, and if you pick it up one step inside the boundary and can't stop yourself from going over you don't get pinged whilst trying to do the right thing (ie taking possession).

It kinda makes it like it is now but without any question of intent to keep it in, let alone how sufficient that intent was.

I strongly ageee with this
Takes out the deliberate rule decisions

 

[Woolly Mammoth]

Make the umpires wear a frilly ballet dress if they pay a free kick for dissent for the rest of the match.

So they'd have to umpire the rest of the game in a bloody dress? Rostoff would approve of that

 

[BluesFever]

16 a side. Opens the game up more. Less congestion more scoring. 6 man bench. Means more players available for Tassie

 

[seasonedsainter]

The stand rule is idiotic and a blight on the game. It has no place in free flowing Aussie Rules football and would wreck the players legs too, having to stop and prop like that.

 

[Mofra]

Remove the sub, 5 on the bench.

 

[Cleansweep17]

Anybody else think we should just let the guy on the mark go wherever he wants as long as it’s behind the mark? I don’t understand this no backwards step thing.

 

[Engimal v3]

Make the ball green

 

[Cuzz09]

Find the rule book for 1990-1994

Stick with those rules

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[crows dude]

Yes in SANFL spoils, knocks and disputed ball is thrown in in between the 50s

Works well imo.

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Spoils are not a free in SANFL. Has to be a legitimate Kick or handball.

 

[Cuzz09]

Spoils are not a free in SANFL. Has to be a legitimate Kick or handball.

that's what I said isn't it

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[crows dude]

that's what I said isn't it

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You said only between the arcs is it a throw in. Im pretty sure they throw it in inside the 50 as well if its a spoil.

 

[Cleansweep17]

In light of the just announced “Maynard Rule” concussion rule change. I think we go a step further, if you concuss somebody you are immediately delisted and sent to jail. The person who got concussed can never play afl again and will be sent to a padded cell in hospital for the rest of his/days. That should sort it out.

 

[GhostofJimJess]

16 a side. Opens the game up more. Less congestion more scoring. 6 man bench. Means more players available for Tassie

Time To Reduce 18 To 16

2008 I might add

 

[Cuzz09]

You said only between the arcs is it a throw in. Im pretty sure they throw it in inside the 50 as well if its a spoil.

ah sorry

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[Underarm]

Find the rule book for 1990-1994

Stick with those rules

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All finals back where they belong.

 

[tiger_tough]

Get rid of 50-meter penalty when a player runs inside the protected area when it has absolutely no impact on the play at all. Does my ****ing head in.