AFL sets interchange cap

[MightyBloods]

Does the cap come in the new membership packs?

[chalbilto]

I wouldn't mind the rotation cap if it was in place with 4 on the bench and no sub.

[Bloody Hell]

Great!

...no wait, I mean the opposite.

I can't see any way this improves the game. Sure it will open it up more, but it's open enough. As noted the endurance player will get places ahead of speed players, even more so than at the moment. No more burning off opponents or bursting from pack ball in hand.

[aardvark]

I wouldn't mind the rotation cap

Is that the one with the propeller on top?

[stellation]

You can just hear the collective shuffle of the feet of potential converts the first time this comes in during a Suns or Giants game. "You can'd do what now? I give up!"

[Swansongster]

Is that the one with the propeller on top?

No. It is the one you wear backwards (for Gen Ys).

[Mel_C]

Considering we've are one of the sides that utilise the interchange the most over the past decade or so, how does this impact on our game style, our structures and personnel going forward?

A month or so back there was an article in one of the papers with the interchange averages for each team this year and surprisingly we were at the bottom with around 120 from memory. It could be due to the injuries that we have had this year?

Yesterday on AFL 360 they showed the interchange averages over the last 10 years and can you believe in 2005 the AFL average was in the 30s!!

[mcs]

A month or so back there was an article in one of the papers with the interchange averages for each team this year and surprisingly we were at the bottom with around 120 from memory. It could be due to the injuries that we have had this year?

Yesterday on AFL 360 they showed the interchange averages over the last 10 years and can you believe in 2005 the AFL average was in the 30s!!

Funny how much the game changes and how quickly. But the AFL is hastening the constant changing by changing rules constantly when there isn't the need to do so.

[alt_mattr]

Yesterday on AFL 360 they showed the interchange averages over the last 10 years and can you believe in 2005 the AFL average was in the 30s!!

The AFL is stacked with former players and former coaches so they constantly think things should go back to the way they were. Why should we think 30 is better than 130? Can't stand this pointless tinkering. It won't achieve what they want either, just like the sub didn't achieve what they wanted. They are just stacking up half-baked ideas on top of each other.

[The Big Cat]

Should go back to 19th and 20th men who permanently replace a player who comes off. Means the best players are always on the field and tests out the real endurance of players. Maybe we'd get back to some blokes playing in a position and get rid of this eyesore of thirty six blokes around the ball. People criticised the flood in the back line. The forward press is worse since the ball is trapped in the forward line and the outriders just send it back in if it ever is cleared. Supporters of the constant rotations say that the game has evolved to get rid of the flood. No it hasn't! The flood has just moved up the other end.

[ScottH]

if forwards aren't ineterchanged after every goal that will reduce the number somewhat.

[bodgie]

Should go back to 19th and 20th men who permanently replace a player who comes off. Means the best players are always on the field and tests out the real endurance of players. Maybe we'd get back to some blokes playing in a position and get rid of this eyesore of thirty six blokes around the ball. People criticised the flood in the back line. The forward press is worse since the ball is trapped in the forward line and the outriders just send it back in if it ever is cleared. Supporters of the constant rotations say that the game has evolved to get rid of the flood. No it hasn't! The flood has just moved up the other end.

Or just 16 on the field (get rid of a few crowding mids who all look and play like each other) and keep 4 on the bench with unlimited rotation

[Bloodthirsty]

Yep, another stupid, unnecessary, complex rule to adjust to for another year, that the players hate, the viewers hate. That's like making two geniuses play chess against each other but capping total moves, so what we have left is not chess anymore, and the things that made chess good are now deprecated and useless.