"I really do hope he was talking about me, because that means I would be getting under the skin of the coaches," Bartlett said on SEN.

So he's admitted that his job isn't to improve the game, but to annoy coaches...

Having an independent committee making recomendations to the AFL is one of the better initiatives of recent years.
Unfortunately, the coaches are mainly egomaniacs with an overstated sense of self importance who resent anyone else having an input on the direction of the game. Their default position is to whinge and bitch about anything they didnt initiate themselves.

Its hard to change something thats been very successful Wojee.
The overwhelming majority of rules introduced over the past few years have been excellent. I laugh at the bogans who ring up complaining about the rule changes. I'd love to ask them which ones they'd actually repeal.

I'm with KB on this one.

If Sheedy hadn't had such a say in the rules in the first place we wouldn't be in this position

Its hard to change something thats been very successful Wojee.

I have a question regarding one of the trial rules on Saturday night and would really like to hear some other opinions.

When Chris Yarran was called to play on at a kick in from a point and the Freo guy ran into the goal square to tackle him, Yarran handballed over the top and was pinged for not kicking it to himself.

To me this was ridiculous as the umpire had called play on, so doesn't the game just restart and is it not unfair and unreasonable to expect the player to have to kick to himself under those circumstances?

I have no problem with the kick to yourself if you decide to play on as the man on the mark is not allowed cross the mark and no other player is allowed in the goal square, but when you are forced to, doesn't seem right to me.