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Re: Hands in the back rule
« Reply #75 on: November 29, 2007, 10:49:02 AM »
Adrian Anderson on the "hands in the back rule":

Research showed a significant majority of the 289 free kicks paid for hands-in-the-back clearly affected the outcome of marking contests.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,22839458%255E19742,00.html

A significant majority?
I would say 100% of the free kicks affected the marking contest- ie: it was no longer a marking contest, it was a free.

The game is over administered both from Jolimont and on the ground....how would incidental contact confuse fans, nothing confused fans more than the interpretations we saw this year. Stop wrecking the game Anderson!
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Re: Hands in the back rule
« Reply #76 on: November 29, 2007, 01:41:09 PM »
The Laws Committee considered "at length" a modification of the hands-in-the-back rule

For goodness sake.  >:(

The overwhelming majority of fans hate the incidental contact being penalised.

'Hand's in the back' should simply be 'Push in the back'!!!!!!

Why is it so hard? :banghead :banghead :banghead

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Re: Hands in the back rule
« Reply #77 on: November 29, 2007, 07:41:28 PM »

Why is it so hard? :banghead :banghead :banghead

Because Andy D's little mate Adrian

1/ has to justify his employment at the AFL
2/ it gives him an opportunity to talk to the media
3/ because they don't want to admit the stuffed it up
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Re: Hands in the back rule
« Reply #78 on: November 30, 2007, 02:22:28 PM »
The Laws Committee considered "at length" a modification of the hands-in-the-back rule that would allow incidental contact, but felt it would make it impossible to umpire and would confuse fans.
As opposed to what the rule is currently where umps are guessing due to it being impossible to be in the right position most of the time and making most contests tosses of a coin ???  ::)
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