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geez Bartlett is a stupid old @#$%&!

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

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Hard to think of anyone more irrelevant or out of touch than Kevin Barlett.

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Gieschen?

Demetriou?

The whole AFL dictatorship is completely out of touch but yep the comment about getting under the skins of the coaches takes the cake

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

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

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I hate Richmond mainly because of KB.

I hate KB mainly because of Richmond.

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How can a bloke with this attitude have any say in the direction of the game?

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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.

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I agree BV, but surely Bartlett is due to be retired from the role.

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Very good BV............coaches are only about winning,as they should be.Last blokes you would want running the game.On this one,i reckon KB is spot on.

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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.

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Those "bogans" form an integral part of the games culture, passionate, parochial suspicious of change, not to dissimilar to a typical sampling of Aus society they represent. Good on em, they're footy democracy's check, helping keep ego maniac reformists like KB in balance..

Malthouse will win this one hairs down

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

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I am as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!!!

Didn't call for change other than retiring Bartlett from his position on the committee.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

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.

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One question I have is why do forwards get 30 secs to kick for goal, miss then the guy who has to kick in only gets 10 sec. Just another example of inequity between forwards and defenders.

I don't mind the interchange Cap, but what is the penalty if you exceed it and what happens when you have used your 20th rotation for the quarter and someone is injured? Do you have to play the rest of the quarter with 17 players?

What's the time around the ground when taking a mark? I thought it was max 30 seconds? Umpires call play on well before 30 seconds has elapsed, yet when a set shot is taking place, 30 seconds and more is allowed.