Facelift for AFL rule team Caroline Wilson
The Age
May 17, 2013 The AFL has proposed an overhaul of the Laws of the Games Committee, with the league's new football boss, Mark Evans, having detected club disenchantment with the rules process.
Club chief executives departed Thursday's CEOs meeting with the impression that the influence of the contentious group could be diminished, and at the very least will undergo a facelift.
Evans has now visited more than half of the 18 clubs and found that in most cases coaches and football department chiefs have become increasingly disillusioned with the matter in which rules have been changed or re-interpreted, and remain cynical regarding outside influences on the committee coming from the AFL executive and even the commission.
Evans told the clubs that he was looking to bolster the committee with additional and more recently retired players, with clubs pointing out that undue pressure was placed on the laws committee disproportionate with the part-time roles of its members.
The AFL has undertaken to limit interchange rotations before the start of the 2014 season, much to the disappointment of the majority of clubs and coaches.
Evans indicated that procedural changes would occur before a definitive ruling was put forward over the limitation, which was cautiously approved but then shelved by the AFL Commission late last year.
Evans on Thursday also outlined concerns over several current rules.
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