Two subs too many

[dimelb]

I'm sorry if someone else has already raised this, but I was annoyed to realise that this new experimental rule was to be used in the NAB Cup. Perhaps others saw Darren Jolly's outburst in the Hun (I couldn't find the story).
I still don't like the current sub rule, despite the advantages said to accrue from it, but I can live with it. However, the idea that we might move to a two-sub rule makes me cranky. It is especially stupid in the context of the NAB Cup, where you want to maximise the chance of trying out different people in various roles. Enough fiddling with the rules!

[goswannie14]

It's actually going back to the original rules with 2 on the bench but no interchange.

[dimelb]

Yes, I guess you're right, and if there really is a need to slow the game down a bit that's probably the way to go, rather than limiting the number of interchanges. What gives me the irrits is the impression at other times of change for change's sake.

[goswannie14]

Yes, I guess you're right, and if there really is a need to slow the game down a bit that's probably the way to go, rather than limiting the number of interchanges. What gives me the irrits is the impression at other times of change for change's sake.

I was having the same discussion with my nephew last night. We have the best game in the world and the idiots that be think they need to change rules every year. STUPID!

[wolftone57]

I was having the same discussion with my nephew last night. We have the best game in the world and the idiots that be think they need to change rules every year. STUPID!

Yes the Anderson and Dimetriou show is all about slowing the game down. So we want our game to be like Soccer, Rugby League, Union and Gridiron. Slow and boring!!!

These two Intellectual Giants can't even seem to work out that it is easier to lower the interchange allowance per game. Changing the rules every five minutes only angers the fans, players and coaches. Nobody wants two subs except these two blokes. Public opinion polls in all major newspapers are 85% against the one sub rule let alone the two sub rule. Why don't Anderson and Demetriou get with the plot and ditch the terrible rule that is going to cause long term injury not short term soft tissue injury.

[DeadlyAkkuret]

I told an American friend about the AFL the other day and she looked for a few videos on YouTube. She couldn't believe how high they jumped and how fast and hard the game was, yet the muppets in charge want to take what's unique away and leave us with a boring shell of our favourite game.

Pathetic.

[Reggi]

I think they stuffed with it when they added two on the bench.

Frankly it was a better spectacle when there 2 on the bench and it was more of an endurance sport rather than watching a mess of players like the under 12s.

Mass rotations are making the game boring

[wolftone57]

I think they stuffed with it when they added two on the bench.

Frankly it was a better spectacle when there 2 on the bench and it was more of an endurance sport rather than watching a mess of players like the under 12s.

Mass rotations are making the game boring

For a start the mess of players much like a Rugby Union game is not caused by the extra bench. That problem is a direct effect of the change to the holding the MAn/Ball Rule and the way it is umpired. The umpires in AFL let the play go on for far too long. If they balled it up immediately instead of insisting on saying "get it out, get it out" all the time the play would flow better. The SANFL uses a tactic that ensures the play flows, throw the ball up but don't wait for the ruck to get ready just go for it. The play flows better than AFL but of course due to the lower skills it is not as fast or as exciting when it gets going. The extra players were introduced to help with the extra place the game was going. At the time they wanted the fastest game in the world and now they want to slow it down! Why don't they make their minds up.

[Nico]

AD and Anderson are business change merchants. It comes from the 90's when "change merchants" were born, to keep people on their toes. It became on epidemic when you had to put something on your CV about "change". People in corporations started "changing" things regardless of the value of that change.

Since these blokes have been running the game they have changed things constantly, even off season, to keep the kettle boiling with the media. It is all about publicity. It sets the phones off on radio and there is a proliferation of TV shows that feed off this change. There is now an accredited AFL journo on every corner to peddle the AFL story. How often do you hear an accredited journo bagging the AFL? Remember the young TV journo who was banished to Siberia when he dared to break the news on the medical records of 2 Hawthorn players found on the street? Most radio commentators are treacle sweet when they talk about the AFL.

They could have brought in video replays for close calls for a goal some years ago, but were happy to feed the chooks with other stuff that they had in their deep bag of tricks.

I would say their strategy is working very well.

[wolftone57]

I agree with you Nico they are just changing things to keep in the news. Whatever happened to a few old fashioned scandals. Not something horrid or vile but stuff like the Wayne Carey thing. If you look a little closer at that the only thing hurt was a bit of ego. Remember when those Collingwood players borrowed a bus and took a ride pissed as farts at 4 in the morning.