Posted on April 3, 2008 | Category: The Other 15
The AFL have promised not to “sit on their hands” in the area of changing the rules to fit with the modern game - and supporters everywhere have knelt down in the rain, sobbing and screamed at the top of their voice an exasperated cry of “WHY?!?!” From news.com.au:
“Anderson said the league would continue to use the pre-season competition as a trial ground, adding he hadn’t been surprised by the backlash over interchange restrictions.
“Whenever you do something different you’re liable to criticism,” he said.
“We don’t sit on our hands. We’ve made some important changes to the game over recent years. We’re going to continue to use the NAB Cup to look at innovations and whether they go anywhere or not, the point of the NAB Cup is to try things. “
Are there any changes that have really made a significant improvement to the football-watching experience. Attempts to encourage high-marking (including the rule that robbed us of the win over Essendon) have instead only resulted in more free kicks being paid in marking contests. Surely it’s time that we did exactly that: sit on our hands, let the game evolve rather than assuming that you know what’s best.
The comments come in relation to Terry Wallace’s plan for an additional two “emergency substitutions”, which seems like a harmless enough idea, but it also has to just go down as another unnecessary adjustment to a beautiful game. And we don’t need it.
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