AFL to officially cap interchange rotations at 80 per game ...... (Herald-Sun)

[one-eyed]

AFL to officially cap interchange rotations at 80 per game

    Jon Ralph and Michael Warner
    From: Herald Sun
    October 16, 2012

A CAP on interchange rotations looms large after a recommendation from the league's laws committee to introduce a 3-1 system with a limit of 80 rotations.

An announcement is expected today on what would be the second change to the AFL's interchange system in three years, with the combination of a substitute and cap widely tipped.

It would be a significant step for the AFL Commission not to rubber-stamp the Laws of the Game recommendation given the exhaustive research and consultation which went into the submission.

The league is expected to tighten the deliberate out-of-bounds and could introduce faster ball-ups at stoppages and a ban on ruckmen making contact before the ball leaves the umpire's hand.

An AFL executive seen to be desperate to introduce a 2-2 interchange system seemingly had a change of heart mid-season, despite a second season of escalating interchanges under the new 3-1 rule.

But the 3-1 system with a cap of 80 would allow the AFL to reduce rotations, while also giving players the same rest period per game.

Instead of players sprinting on and off the ground in frenetic rotations, they would have the same average rest time but broken up into bigger chunks.

Clubs canvassed on the potential move to a 3-1 system with a cap of 80 were yesterday eager to find out if they could also interchange players during quarter-time breaks.

A trial of capped interchanging several years ago included every player swap in the total interchanges, even those during breaks.

AFL clubs, players and sports scientists have railed against any changes, but at least a decision made today would allow clubs to structure their pre-seasons around any potential change.

The 80-interchange cap would favour one-paced endurance animals like Carlton's Brock McLean and Melbourne's Jack Trengove, but disadvantage burst players like Collingwood's Dane Swan.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/more-news/afl-to-officially-cap-interchange-rotations-at-80-per-game/story-e6frf9jf-1226496593490

[dwaino]

Bugger off

[Judge Roughneck]

Wankers
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[Coach]

anyone seen the new rules? Naituni is going to kill someone next year

[tiga]

Contact Goal Defense! 

[Penelope]

much prefer a cap on interchanges than the sub rule. It truly sucks lemonade and sars. They should bugger it off completely if they have a cap on interchanges.

[one-eyed]

The AFL is postponing any interchange capping for a year.

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At its meeting on Monday the commission decided to wait another 12 months before making the change.

A cap on interchanges will once again be trialled in next year's pre-season competition, and the commission is then expected to rubber-stamp its introduction for the 2014 premiership season.

"The commission is an independent body that takes a 'big picture' approach in overseeing the laws of our game," AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said on Tuesday.

"This decision demonstrates the important oversight role the AFL Commission plays and underlines the robustness of the governance arrangements that apply to all significant long-term decisions affecting how our game is played."

Interchange numbers have increased dramatically in recent years and, despite the introduction of the three-and-one system, teams averaged 131 interchanges per game in 2012 - up from 81 five years ago.

With that in mind, it had been widely speculated that the commission had approved a cap of 80 interchanges.

But the one-year delay is a win for the coaches, who told the AFL they needed more time to plan for such a major alteration to the interchange system.

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/149772/default.aspx

[1965]

The AFL is postponing any interchange capping for a year.

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But the one-year delay is a win for the coaches, who told the AFL they needed more time to plan for such a major alteration to the interchange system.

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/149772/default.aspx

Sensible decision.

 

[RollsRoyce]

The AFL is postponing any interchange capping for a year.

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At its meeting on Monday the commission decided to wait another 12 months before making the change.

A cap on interchanges will once again be trialled in next year's pre-season competition, and the commission is then expected to rubber-stamp its introduction for the 2014 premiership season.

"The commission is an independent body that takes a 'big picture' approach in overseeing the laws of our game," AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said on Tuesday.

"This decision demonstrates the important oversight role the AFL Commission plays and underlines the robustness of the governance arrangements that apply to all significant long-term decisions affecting how our game is played."

Interchange numbers have increased dramatically in recent years and, despite the introduction of the three-and-one system, teams averaged 131 interchanges per game in 2012 - up from 81 five years ago.

With that in mind, it had been widely speculated that the commission had approved a cap of 80 interchanges.

But the one-year delay is a win for the coaches, who told the AFL they needed more time to plan for such a major alteration to the interchange system.

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/149772/default.aspx

FFS, stop listening to the "leave the game alone" brigade, just show some common sense and balls for once AFL, and get it done! I don't want to have to put up with another year of watching Ross Lyon and his ilk sending the fifth fleet and the travelling cast of Miss Saigon to jam up our forward line, and turning the game into an ugly under 9s wrestle in jelly.

[Coach]

They did. It was this time.

lol @ wanting to change the greatest game in the world so that it makes life a bit harder for Ross Lyon.

[RollsRoyce]

They did. It was this time.

lol @ wanting to change the greatest game in the world so that it makes life a bit harder for Ross Lyon.

I agree with you that it's the greatest game in the world. And that's why I want to protect it from being RUINED by selfish coaches, whose - end justifies the means - mentality is killing the game as a spectacle. Modern footy is now almost unrecognizable from the game that I fell in love with. It's now DEVOLVED into the kind of garbage that junior coaches used to tell their kids not to play, ie/ one in-all in, with a load of rolling scrimmages where the game is slowly suffocated. 
You may laugh at my vendetta against Ross Lyon. But really, he's just the latest in a long line of coaches who have purposely uglied up the game in their quest for the ultimate prize (Eade, Roos, Wallace, Malthouse). Besides, putting a cap on the number of interchanges per game will not fundamentally change the nature of the game. It will not make it any less brutal, or turn it into netball, as opponents of the proposal always squeal. It will just stop players from rotating in three's and fours for several minutes so they can rest up to continue streaming into the oppositions forward line. It will make the game more free-flowing, high-scoring and spectacular again, and I say BRING IT ON!!!   

[Judge Roughneck]

Not it won't.

It'll just means kids who can run a lot will be drafted in favor of natural footballers.

[RollsRoyce]

Then how the hell do we stop the congestion????

[Penelope]

16 a side