David Harding
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Cain LynchRushed Behind Rule - Time to go
April 5th 2011 12:21
The theory behind the rushed behind rule was to stop players from deliberately rushing the behind, or was it was done in the past using this to waste time in the dying moments of a game. But the rule has been a deadset joke, and what has made it a joke? It interpretation of the rule. The AFL has deemed that if the player rushing the behind is under pressure, then the point will stand, and no freekick is to be awarded. My idea of the rule was to ban all rushed behinds, under pressure or not, and yet the rule has been abused since it's inception.
Then to make matters worse Friday Night, the umpires made a complete meal of the rule, Luke McGuane clearly under pressure rushed the behind and was penalised. But other obvious cases have been deemed not freekick worthy, but ones that aren't are deemed to be such. The Roos were once penalised for the same thing against Essendon, and yet teams that are still making obvious rushed behinds aren't,
This is telling me, that the AFL's rule is not working, it's a joke, when a player can go for a mark, and not mark it on purpose, let the ball dribble over the line and be given a behind. But a player under pressure, cannot rush it? Players are clearly confused, umpires are confused, and the AFL public are bloody confused as well.
What's the deal? Either enforce it correctly, or dump it it's not bloody rocket science, it's umpiring a game of football. It is enforcing rules you are taught to enforce. How hard is this rule to understand? It's not, so why are players confused? Because of the way the umpires are confused in who is or isn't under pressure.
It's becoming a joke, and what really makes me annoyed is when a rushed behind happens, players turn around and beg for a freekick. Even when they know it was under pressure, they beg. It's getting annoying, it's more annoying then seeing a guy dive in an EPL game, beg for a penalty, and then sulk that he's not got it even though he dived.
So now I wonder why keep a rule that's not now, not then, and probably not ever going to be interpreted right? I never liked the idea of the rule, I never liked that they made a modification to it, that allowed exceptions to the rule. It's clearly opened up a lot of complaints, and a lot of errors have been caused.
Yet we're still going to persist with a rule change no one wanted, the league never needed, and just something else to make the tools at AFL House think they need to add more useless rules.
Either fix it, or get rid of it. You cannot keep this rubbish going.
There have been too many spur of the moment changes and they have been done without time to think, and done without the AFL researching an issue. The rushing behind, isn't often overused, in general play a rushed behind will happen when you go for a mark and punch it through. While the time wasting ones I can see as a problem, that was an isolated incident and the AFL jumped on the bandwagon to make a dramatic change for something that didn't need to be done.
I am not worried about the rule, I am just thinking it's stupid, it's not really stopped the rushed behind like they were saying it was, players have been creative in how they've rushed behinds.
One way has been the dropped mark, and pretend to chase it over the line, it's clearly a tactic teams have learned either on purpose or players have looked at ways to exploit the rules.
Some players just wait to be tackled over the line, some run into danger and rush it, on the rare occasion the umpires finds it, but this time they made an error. Luke was under pressure and rushed the behind.
The umpires admitted they were wrong, but would they have changed the result if the Tigers lost? No, so what's it going to take for them to get serious?
Rushed behind rule needs to go.
Then to make matters worse Friday Night, the umpires made a complete meal of the rule, Luke McGuane clearly under pressure rushed the behind and was penalised. But other obvious cases have been deemed not freekick worthy, but ones that aren't are deemed to be such. The Roos were once penalised for the same thing against Essendon, and yet teams that are still making obvious rushed behinds aren't,
This is telling me, that the AFL's rule is not working, it's a joke, when a player can go for a mark, and not mark it on purpose, let the ball dribble over the line and be given a behind. But a player under pressure, cannot rush it? Players are clearly confused, umpires are confused, and the AFL public are bloody confused as well.
What's the deal? Either enforce it correctly, or dump it it's not bloody rocket science, it's umpiring a game of football. It is enforcing rules you are taught to enforce. How hard is this rule to understand? It's not, so why are players confused? Because of the way the umpires are confused in who is or isn't under pressure.
It's becoming a joke, and what really makes me annoyed is when a rushed behind happens, players turn around and beg for a freekick. Even when they know it was under pressure, they beg. It's getting annoying, it's more annoying then seeing a guy dive in an EPL game, beg for a penalty, and then sulk that he's not got it even though he dived.
So now I wonder why keep a rule that's not now, not then, and probably not ever going to be interpreted right? I never liked the idea of the rule, I never liked that they made a modification to it, that allowed exceptions to the rule. It's clearly opened up a lot of complaints, and a lot of errors have been caused.
Yet we're still going to persist with a rule change no one wanted, the league never needed, and just something else to make the tools at AFL House think they need to add more useless rules.
Either fix it, or get rid of it. You cannot keep this rubbish going.
There have been too many spur of the moment changes and they have been done without time to think, and done without the AFL researching an issue. The rushing behind, isn't often overused, in general play a rushed behind will happen when you go for a mark and punch it through. While the time wasting ones I can see as a problem, that was an isolated incident and the AFL jumped on the bandwagon to make a dramatic change for something that didn't need to be done.
I am not worried about the rule, I am just thinking it's stupid, it's not really stopped the rushed behind like they were saying it was, players have been creative in how they've rushed behinds.
One way has been the dropped mark, and pretend to chase it over the line, it's clearly a tactic teams have learned either on purpose or players have looked at ways to exploit the rules.
Some players just wait to be tackled over the line, some run into danger and rush it, on the rare occasion the umpires finds it, but this time they made an error. Luke was under pressure and rushed the behind.
The umpires admitted they were wrong, but would they have changed the result if the Tigers lost? No, so what's it going to take for them to get serious?
Rushed behind rule needs to go.
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