The only other new rule I'd like to see is an indefinate moratorium on stuffing rule changes.
Yes WP, but it's precisely this kind of attitude that ensures that we'll rock up to the Docklands to play North once again this year, and Brad Snott will park 18 players in our forward line all day long and make it impossible to score.
Disagree. Because we have seen the AFL change the rules and Coaches find a way to expoilt it or change their tatics to gain an advantage. That's what happens and it will continue to happen
The sub rule is a perfect example. They got rid of 4 interchange players to try and slow the game down and replaced it with 3 Interchange and a Sub. But it then created another problem and that was this idea that there's too many rotations. So what do they do for 2014? They cap the number of rotations. And once clubs work out a way to exploit it to thier advantage what will the AFL do? They'll implement another change or course.
IMV if they were to impose a moratorium on rules changes for say 2 season alot of these supposed "issues" with the game would sort themselves out. It's worked in the past. And if they don't then, yes they should do something but making wholesale changes year after year because they jumped at nother shadow and panicked isn't the way to do it
And just on the N0rt game in 2013, don't lose sight of the fact that despite the game plan the opposition implemented on the day our team played insipid football. N0rt had little trouble scoring despite having everyone going back. The bottled up the our fwd 50 but when they got the thing they spread and cleared the ball easily because we applied very little or no pressure. Lack of pressure on the opposition when we don't have the ball has absolutely nothing to do with N0rt having 18 people in our forward line.
