Interchange format? (poll)

[SfB_AkA._DeLiCiOuS]

What happens if you miscount and have extra rotations? What's the penalty?

probably a 50m penalty, just guessing though.

 

[TigerForce]

What happens if you miscount and have extra rotations? What's the penalty?

Whatever is as pedantic and ridiculous as the 'too many players on the ground after interchange' rule.

Dreamers in this league.

 

[Total Tiger]

Geez Ralph's had a good week.

Eddie's saying further changes could force players to take EPO.
Seems a bit extreme. What's his agenda there?

He wants his opinion repeated in newspapers is usually Eddie's agenda

 

[Tigers of Old]

Just the usual rantings of Fat Eddie-remember he has a lot of dead air to fill each morning.

He does seem to know quite a bit about EPO though. He seems to be suggesting that if players were to, hypothetically, get involved with it as a response to something out of their control, like a change in the Interchange rules, then it would be quite understandable. Does he know something that others don't know?

I doubt that EPO would be of much use to him.

:hihi

Yes. I just found it a bit of a random comment.

No ruck wrestling... put skirts on 'em, play netball....


Actually, netball might have more contact than footy soon...

Fair Dinkum.

Maybe not netball but if it's no contact we can expect a few more 7ft basketball types..

Ridiculous rule change.

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

Sounds like borderline extortion from Eddie.

 

[TigerForce]

Changed the ruck rules though. No contact at stoppages. I guess they had to change at least 1 rule to feel like they were doing something.

Just after we recruited a ruck who thrives on the physical nature of the game too.

Sometimes I wonder if I live in a hallucination with this game.

What about body on body contact with no holding at least? How the *smile* are they gonna attack the incoming ball from OOB?

 

[graystar1]

No ruck wrestling... put skirts on 'em, play netball....


Actually, netball might have more contact than footy soon...

Fair Dinkum.

Well, at least it will be interesting to see how it is policed...

Agreed. It almost seems if the Commission don't want any body contact in what was a great physical game once. Getting more like netball as you say Feisty One and also basketball, with all this throwing up of the pill instead of bouncing. Why change it for Pete's sake?

 

[pahoffm]

While we are discussing changes to make football more like it was, there is a VFL retro that I would like to revert to.

When the VFL was the VFA, it was a 16 man team plus reserves; there were no wings.

Most of the VFL games are played on the old VFA grounds, yet in contemporary times, there are 18 players on the field, plus interchange.

Let's make VFL games faster and less crowded, as they were in the good old days.

I say, reduce the on-field teams to 16 players, plus 2 reserves only (2 interchange, if you must).

Wouldn't that help all clubs?

 

[Rosy]

It's official, 80 interchanges per game.
What a joke.

Interesting.

Can someone explain the reasoning behind capping the interchanges please?

 

[zippadeee]

Interesting.

Can someone explain the reasoning behind capping the interchanges please?

Take the speed out of the game and reduce congestion around the ball.
80 is plenty.
Clubs will use the 15-15-20-30.
30 interchanges in the last qtr is plenty

 

[Rosy]

Take the speed out of the game and reduce congestion around the ball.

I wasn't aware the cap rule had been changed. Seems strange when I heard on the radio yesterday that they were going to throw the ball up more to speed up the game, and that's on top of the quick kick-in after a behind. They're just making changes to negate their other changes. Wish they'd leave the game alone.

 

[zippadeee]

I wasn't aware the cap rule had been changed. Seems strange when I heard on the radio yesterday that they were going to throw the ball up more to speed up the game, and that's on top of the quick kick-in after a behind. They're just making changes to negate their other changes. Wish they'd leave the game alone.

I'm not 100% sure either, KB has a go at the afl commission about something about the capping of the interchange in today's paper. Again I'm not sure if he wants it capped or not.

Personally I think they screw around with the game way too often, especially the rules.

 

[MB78]

I read that the cap won't come in next year. It will be used in the NAB cup then most likely be implemented in 2014.

 

[Rosy]

I read that the cap won't come in next year.

Yeah I've just been trying to search for more info. It seems to me like the cap is going to be trialled in the NAB games. Maybe Jukes can elaborate on it being official.

Edit- I found an article about the cap and it seems it's not an official change for next season. Read here

 

[Tigers of Old]

Changed the ruck rules though. No contact at stoppages. I guess they had to change at least 1 rule to feel like they were doing something.

Just after we recruited a ruck who thrives on the physical nature of the game too.

Yep Maric is going to be affected by this no doubt. On the other hand NikNat will get a free jump at it now.

 

[D85]

I wasn't aware the cap rule had been changed. Seems strange when I heard on the radio yesterday that they were going to throw the ball up more to speed up the game, and that's on top of the quick kick-in after a behind. They're just making changes to negate their other changes. Wish they'd leave the game alone.

This.

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

Yep Maric is going to be affected by this no doubt. On the other hand NikNat will get a free jump at it now.

You have to wonder whether this new rule is targeted towards recruiting NicNat clones from US college sports, given the draft camp they held over there recently. The AFL is never without an agenda.

 

[Tigers of Old]

You have to wonder whether this new rule is targeted towards recruiting NicNat clones from US college sports, given the draft camp they held over there recently. The AFL is never without an agenda.

This is what Anderson said yesterday..

"Throwing the ball up around the ground will enable the ball to be cleared quicker from congestion and will also make it easier for umpires to detect infringements"

"With this rule change we want to encourage rucks centres to play the ball and not the man as well as facilitate cleaner hit-outs to advantage and to assist clearance rates"

Yep it's basketball.
I don't like basketball, I like Australian Rules Adrian, so why are you changing the game to basketball?

 

[casper68]

This is what Anderson said yesterday..

"Throwing the ball up around the ground will enable the ball to be cleared quicker from congestion and will also make it easier for umpires to detect infringements"

"With this rule change we want to encourage rucks centres to play the ball and not the man as well as facilitate cleaner hit-outs to advantage and to assist clearance rates"

Yep it's basketball.
I don't like basketball, I like Australian Rules Adrian, so why are you changing the game to basketball?

when will we get alley oops and dunking

 

[YinnarTiger]

Take the speed out of the game and reduce congestion around the ball.
80 is plenty.
Clubs will use the 15-15-20-30.
30 interchanges in the last qtr is plenty

In the NAB cup trial next year, they're talking 20 interchanges per quarter. If they exceed the 20 per quarter the player coming off cannot return for 15 minutes.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/interchange-cap-gets-oneyear-reprieve-20121016-27oll.html