It's official, Hocking and the AFL are dumb-arsed, half-baked clowns who are trying to stuff the game

[zippadeee]

So the interchange rule is to reduce the high pressure game and bring in a little more fatigue. Does the AFL really thing that will stop our game plan style evolving one step ahead of the rest?
As others have noted, more fatigue equals more injury risk but time will tell

That rule suits us.
20 minutes qtrs, less Interchange
God help the opposition after half time against us.
We are the fittest and have a team full of endurance beasts.
Our percentage next year might hit the 200's...

 

[tigersnake]

I think it is about stopping the players moving sideways to cut off the angles into the corridor and force the kicker to head down the line.

Players are generally instructed to take the mark inside as much as they can.

I don't mind that so much or the kick in mark but hate the reduced rotations. The only logical outcome of that is more injured players.

we all know what its about, but its wrong. The laws, the fabric, the vibe of the game says you cannot go over the mark, sideways, backwards is fine. If you want to get around or over the man on the mark, take him on, its a CONTEST, and a contest that is at the core of the fabric of the game.

But forget all that, Hocking had a brain fart, FMD

It is staggeringly bad. and the way its been done is staggeringly bad. Impact assessment? AFL have never heard of it. Objective analysis? Forget it we have Steve, he has glasses and is whiskas brother, Data? Huh?

Unbeleivable. Corrupt hillbillies the lot of 'em.

 

[TOT70]

Heh, heh. If the change to the man on the mark rule leads to more kicks across half back going back into the corridor and not down the line we will be unstoppable. How often do Edwards, Bolton, Lambert, Cotchin, Rioli and co cut these dinky 15 metre kicks off?

It will be carnage.

 

[tigersnake]

we all know what its about, but its wrong. The laws, the fabric, the vibe of the game says you cannot go over the mark, sideways, backwards is fine. If you want to get around or over the man on the mark, take him on, its a CONTEST, and a contest that is at the core of the fabric of the game. Manning the mark is a skil and indicative of appetite for the contest.

But forget all that, Hocking had a brain fart, to make the man on the mark stationary, a cardboard cuttout, FMD

It is staggeringly bad. and the way its been done is staggeringly bad. Impact assessment? AFL have never heard of it. Objective analysis? Forget it we have Steve, he has glasses and is whiskas brother, Data? Huh?

Unbeleivable. Corrupt hillbillies the lot of 'em.

 

[Dyer'ere]

Corrupt hillbillies. *smile*, I lullzed.

 

[zippadeee]

Heh, heh. If the change to the man on the mark rule leads to more kicks across half back going back into the corridor and not down the line we will be unstoppable. How often do Edwards, Bolton, Lambert, Cotchin, Rioli and co cut these dinky 15 metre kicks off?

It will be carnage.

That 100% suits us.
If the man on the mark is now redundant, we will be like Gazelles running the lines.
Imagine Bolton, Edrwards, Castagna and Martyn

 

[ToraToraTora]

I felt during his media blurb he had no idea what he was talking about. The rotations was icing on the cake. And the only thing that might actually work, forcing players inside the 50, they are too scared to do.

 

[zippadeee]

I felt during his media blurb he had no idea what he was talking about. The rotations was icing on the cake. And the only thing that might actually work, forcing players inside the 50, they are too scared to do.

only if they wear a bib with FB or FF on it...

 

[mrposhman]

It's all about creating space on the ground, and all theoretical. They're reluctant to go the nuclear option - 16 a side - so they fritter about the edges with things that have little or no impact.

Massive grey area that needs to be addressed. I can see a few players developing natural arcs over the pre-season.

Understand what they want to do, but the stats don't back it up. If more space on the ground greats higher scoring, then why does the MCG (the biggest field size in the AFL) have one of the lowest average score per game? I think when this was looked at before, the highest average score was at GMHBA so the whole story of more space creates higher scores its actually a fallacy.

 

[TOT70]

Unbeleivable. Corrupt hillbillies the lot of 'em.

 

[mrposhman]

Aren't you arguing for the new rule there? Because the man on the mark will have to stand toe to toe with the kicker now and create that contest, instead of standing 10 metres inside and giving them a free passage down the line.

Whats to stop players standing 0.5m-1m behind the mark and stand off the line of the mark? I'm guessing nothing, so what does this rule change achieve?

 

[Tigers of Old]

25 x controversial 50m free kicks in a game = lots of goal$. Oh goodie!!
I really feel sorry for umpires having to police this *smile*.

 

[fastin bulbous]

Yeh - get back to us when you can get holding the ball and incorrect disposal right you *smile* morons

 

[zippadeee]

I bet that Einstein Blight had something to do with this *smile*.

 

[Smoking Aces]

More Dusty moments?! Give me a spell.
SHocking is a liar. He's trying to dismantle our high pressure game plan.
These rule changes are completely unjustified.

They have for a few years now trying to unravel our game plan by introducing these new rules. First it was 6-6-6. That didn’t work because we went and got Tom Lynch. Now they are trying to reduce forward pressure. Problem for them is we also kill teams off the longer the game goes. We will be least effected by this.

 

[Disco]

Yeh - get back to us when you can get holding the ball and incorrect disposal right you *smile* morons

This x 1,000,000. They make it so much *smile* harder than it needs to be. Fix the basics, the rest will take care of itself.

 

[TigerFlag2017]

There appears to be a strong correlation between rule changes and richmond premierships.

So I say bravo Steve Hocking, you are doing a fine job.

 

[fastin bulbous]

This x 1,000,000. They make it so much *smile* harder than it needs to be. Fix the basics, the rest will take care of itself.

It gets my liver swelling with fury just thinking about it....

 

[tigersnake]

Aren't you arguing for the new rule there? Because the man on the mark will have to stand toe to toe with the kicker now and create that contest, instead of standing 10 metres inside and giving them a free passage down the line.

No, I'm not!

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

Understand what they want to do, but the stats don't back it up. If more space on the ground greats higher scoring, then why does the MCG (the biggest field size in the AFL) have one of the lowest average score per game? I think when this was looked at before, the highest average score was at GMHBA so the whole story of more space creates higher scores its actually a fallacy.

These are the averages for the past 10 years (with 2020 scores x 1.25). No correlation whatsoever between ground size and scoring.

Avg Score	Venue	State	Gms	AKA	Length	Width	Approx. area (m2)
109.5	Blacktown Park	NSW	1		161	138	17450​
91.0	Marvel Stadium	V	429		160	129	16211​
89.7	Blundstone Arena	T	22	Hobart	160	124	15582​
89.4	Giants Stadium	NSW	73		164	128	16487​
89.0	Gabba	Q	140		156	138	16908​
88.7	TIO Traeger Park	NT	7	Alice Springs	168	132	17417​
88.0	AAMI Stadium	SA	67	Football Park	177	145	20157​
87.7	University of Tasmania Stadium	T	36	Launceston	175	145	19929​
87.3	GMHBA Stadium	V	73	Geelong	170	116	15488​
86.6	Melbourne Cricket Ground	V	466		161	138	17450​
85.9	UNSW Canberra Oval	ACT	25	Manuka	162.5	138	17613​
85.4	Domain Stadium	WA	163	Subiaco	175	122	16768​
84.6	Adelaide Oval	SA	159		167	123	16133​
84.2	Westpac Stadium	NZ	3		160	129	16211​
84.0	Metricon Stadium	Q	134	Carrara	158	134	16628​
83.9	ANZ Stadium	NSW	21	Stadium Australia	170	128	17090​
83.5	Sydney Cricket Ground	NSW	94		155	136	16556​
81.6	Mars Stadium	V	5	Ballarat	160	129	16211​
80.0	Jiangwan Stadium	CH	3	China	160	136	17090​
79.2	Optus Stadium	WA	65	Perth	165	130	16847​
78.0	Riverway Stadium	Q	1	Townsville
76.6	TIO Stadium	NT	14	Darwin	175	135	18555​
71.5	Cazaly's Stadium	Q	12	Cairns	165	135	17495​