WTF!? - AFL wants to reduce "excessive tackling"

[gingernuts]

I believe they are trying to reduce "tag teams" at the after match parties

 

[SunshineBoy]

No posts from scats supporters I see

 

[SunshineBoy]

Any number of measures could reduce tackling. Have 5 a side for example

Why not say 9 a side like AFL X?

 

[Damon_3388]

Do these *******s realise what they are trying to push the game towards?

Pressure free footy games where there is no defence played are absolutely horrid.

That sounds like AFL-X which is high scoring but still boring as bats**t to watch as there is very little in the way of defence or tackling.

So why do people pine for or talk wistfully of '80s/'90s footy then? That's how the game was back then (try watching a random game from that time with a 2019 mindset, and see how quickly you get frustrated by the dumb, inefficient ball use and general lack of pressure), and that's what the AFL is trying to push the game towards by reducing tackling and defensive play, without the threat of head-high hits or king hits too.

Perhaps the "golden era" of footy some of us grew up on wasn't so golden after all...

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Reintroduce 3rd man up so packs can be cleared faster

Define a tackle. NFL has knee spot, the rugby codes have elbow spot and momentum stop.
AFL has 360 sometimes, othertimes not. Momentum sometimes, other times not. And many more.

 

[SunshineBoy]

Do these *******s realise what they are trying to push the game towards?

Pressure free footy games where there is no defence played are absolutely horrid. I have never thought it enjoyable to watch two teams just waltzing around the ground kicking easy goals. Yet here we have this ******* ******** thinking tackling needs to somehow be reduced.

Whose idea was it anyway to make this piece of s**t a custodian of a game that has lasted over 150 years without all this whinging from Hocking and co that now takes place.

They bought in 6-6-6 which has done fu** all to “open” up the game.

Despise the low scoring I actually think the game has been fairly good to watch this year. A lot of evenness in the competition making for close games. This ******* Hocking obviously isn’t pleasing the corporates and here he is proposing more fundamental changes to a sport which doesn’t need them.

Just fu** off already you turd.

Who? Gerard Walkley , thats who.

 

[mike123]

Yes please, reduce tackling and congestion is reduced and the game opens up.

 

[SavDog23]

Hocking is a ****ing moron.
Tackling has not 'become a feature' of our game. It's been an integral part of our game since it was created 120 years ago.

‘‘I don’t think there’s a number ... but certainly we don’t want that [tackling] necessarily as a skill.’’
It's like this ****wit doesn't know anything about the very game he's meant to be running.

Get this dumb campaigner out of our sport asap.

 

[Oscarman]

Is Dangerfield not liking his hair been messed up every time he gets tackled?

 

[iluvparis]

Some solid melts going on here amongst the BF mouth breathers

A question - are people HAPPY with the number of tackles in a game these days compared to 15-20 years ago? I certainly don't watch games to see how many tackles each team/player can get.

 

[Struggle]

Pay dropping the ball/incorrect disposal on the first tackle and the 3rd/4th/5th tackles will magically disappear. The rules are already there you dickhead. Enforce them

 

[Milanista28]

Not sure why they want high scoring uncontested games, they're boring AF.

High pressure tough tackling is when footy is at it's peak.

 

[carnthedons]

" Zurhaar, yes Razor ? You're off mate for the remainder of the game. Why Razor ? You've had 5 tackles up till 1/2 time mate, sorry "

Fun fact, he’s only had 5 or more tackles twice in a whole game across his 22 game career and averages less than 3 per game.

Point taken though

 

[Ron The Bear]

The number of tackles per match is actually reducing steadily in recent seasons - 140, 137, 130, 125. It's currently around the 2009 level.

Hocking is trying to create work for himself, like women cricketers agitating for more Tests or the Victorian human rights mob urging people to dob in a racist.

 

[OniAu]

Some solid melts going on here amongst the BF mouth breathers

A question - are people HAPPY with the number of tackles in a game these days compared to 15-20 years ago? I certainly don't watch games to see how many tackles each team/player can get.

Are you happy watching an AFLX style of game in proper season ?


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[Cicatriz]

I'm much more interested with ball skills than tackling skills. The reality has been for some time that we have been rewarding the tackling player over the ball player and our game has moved closer to Rugby.
One ball, 36 players on the field. Reward the ball player.

 

[Grrr]

Pay dropping the ball/incorrect disposal on the first tackle and the 3rd/4th/5th tackles will magically disappear. The rules are already there you dickhead. Enforce them

Well perhaps that is what he is talking about. It seems to me that holding the man, the most common reason for giving a free kick in previous decades, has gone out the window in this. The amount of scragging a player when they don't have the ball is ridiculous. The amount of throws from the bottom of the pack, the tackle that lands in the back, all these 50-50 tackles are let go. If the ump's paid more free's for this sort of thing and stopped worrying about the idiotic 50m infringement rules, the game would be in a much better place. So I'm with Hocking. Aussie Rules was not Gaelic footy in from the 80' - 00's, it was fast, hard and open and probably the most exciting football has ever been. Hocking played in that era and probably wants it back. As do I.

 

[The Warlord]

A game that was literally invented when a bloke came back from RUGBY SCHOOL has tackling as an integral part.

My God, Hocking is a cretin.

 

[The Warlord]

I'm much more interested with ball skills than tackling skills. The reality has been for some time that we have been rewarding the tackling player over the ball player and our game has moved closer to Rugby.
One ball, 36 players on the field. Reward the ball player.

DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW OUR GAME STARTED?

 

[The Warlord]

The more and more the AFL changes the rules to try open the game up and increase scoring the worse and less scoring the game gets

This - grouse, let's bring in Hocking's rule and watch the game become blokes kicking it around the backline for 85 minutes to keep possesion then making a single forward thrust (Ooh err vicar!) in attempt to win 1-0.

 

[Matsu]

Last team to handle the ball over the line hands possession over answers a lot of these issues. Encourages corridor play as the boundary play would no longer be the safe bet, no stoppages from boundary throw ins, defenders required to keep the ball in play. Stoppages only from tackles and centre bounces makes a lot of sense.

 

[kaiserchief13]

Who votes for these people to get into their jobs and how do those people get their job as well? Seems like incompetence but how do they all get removed?

 

[Toump Ass]

"We don't want tackling as a skill"

Actually we do want tackling as a skill you ****ing donut. What we don't want as a skill is players exaggerating contact from a tackle or dropping their knees to draw a free.

Diving is the "feature of our game" we need to piss off.

 

[shaqsuns]

Reduced interchange would reduce tackles. More fatigue would mean more missed tackles and less intent to tackle.

I like the way you think


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[Dav]

The absolute gall of the AFL to think they can just completely remove a skill from our game.