The AFL has had many rule changes over its 120 year history. But only a few of these rule changes are brought about as a result of certain player's actions. These are more of those rule changes.
2008 GF causing the change to deliberately rushing behinds. I was there as a neutral that day, it was kind of genius and frustrating to watch all at once.
Anything that the pies use to gain an advantage causes a rule change, I recall Steve McKee and his ruck work. Changed the rule and his career was pretty much over
The Maynard incident how can you not have contact with the player when you are mid air I’d like to see the people who make the rules change direction when they’re mid air and miss the person completely
🏈🏈🏈 I can remember the "Joel Selwoood Shrug" ( Ducking into tackles )... Lean towards the tackler, lower your body / bend your knees, lift your arm when tackled to force tackler's arm towards your neck and get the free kick for the high tackle. 19 02 2024
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It was actually a technique to shrug the tackle which often actually disadvantaged Selwood as he was called back to take his free kick when he'd already cleared the tackle and had got rid of the ball. It also got to the ridiculous stage when Selwood was legitimately tackled high when he was getting up after winning a contested possession and commentators would claim he had ducked into it.
I'm a Hawks supporter and the Maynard thing is a joke. AFL has lost its mind. They had it right at the beginning of 2023 when they punished the action NOT the outcome, then about a third of the way into the season they backflipped and started penalising outcome...as usual. So stupid.
I thought that ducking was always not a free kick - at least when I was introduced to footy in 2014 or so I was told that ducking meant no high contact free kick
The third man up rule was changed because a player received a chest injury from the extra man leaping in. The tactic was never considered ‘unfair’ by clubs and was a great way to open up play. Do your fkn research.
People might disagree with me on this one, but i think they should get rid of the stand rule, i just think its rubbish and it feels like it slows the game down alot
Selwood got away with ducking for his entire career, AFL should have nipped it in the bud back then , Blind Freddie could see what he was getting away with.
I’m a Pies supporter, I thought that Maynard would get a massive fine and a two game suspension, I was angry at Bruzzy but I could still see his side, after all, he’s an awesome bloke
no, but it was careless and he should have been suspended; Careless, high contact, high impact that's two weeks by the grading system. If launching yourself in the air toward an approaching player, thereby losing any opportunity to move or alter direction isn't careless, then nothing is..@@Kaleen_YT
Players trying to exploit the afl rules should get a minimum 5 match ban and club should get a decent fine, in my opinion if players knock out other players from a brutal dog shot should get a minimum 10 match ban or whole season ban too teach them a lesson, once the players see this it will make players think twice about dog shotting another player, the afl is way too soft on enforcing their rules especially against victorian teams.
I’m not a Collingwood fan but I don’t mind Maynard Should have copped 2 weeks though if the rest of the year was anything to go by Have a look at what James Sicily got 3 weeks for (absolutely disgraceful)
dane swan was a big reason for the sub rule which has turned into the interchange cap. In the pies 2010 flag year there weren't a cap on rotations and swan came on and off every 6 minutes or so to freshen up and break a tag. The AFL got wise to it the next year and introduced the sub rule in 2011 to limit player rotations.
@@Kaleen_YT He was the serial offender who got away with it for 15 years, thanks to aFL & umpiring incompetence.....Hence why all the other players followed....You're 100% incorrect.
I’m a Geelong supporter but I know for sure Selwood was the reason, or at least first known for it. Ginnivan I feel abused it every time he was tackled so that’s why the change was necessary. They had enough of Selwood doing it and didn’t want young players making it a habit.
Should have stopped the king of ducking Selwood and it would not still be in the game today But unsurprisingly umpires love Geelong and given them the rub of the green for almost 20 years
Kevin Bartlett forced a rule change back in the '70s with his technique of throwing the ball out in front of himself a split second before being tackled in an attempt to draw a free for holding the man. He wasn't the only guy that did it, but he was the best at it. He was pretending to bounce the ball but threw it down at an angle that ensured it wouldn't bounce back into his possession. Strict umpires would pay him the free but some umps called play on, so he learned which ump he could do it in front of. It was an exploitation of the vagueness of the rules, so it was changed to explicitly state a player had to kick or handball when tackled. It didn't impact Bartlett as he adjusted his game & went on to be the first player to 400 games. It's worth noting that, in that era, umpires usually tended to favour the man in possession, making the play. Anything dodgy about a tackle was penalised in favour of the man in possession. That is, a tackle had to be close to perfect to be rewarded with holding the ball.
Ginnivan was more like Paul Puopolo who would actually sense he was about to get tackled and dropped down so the tackle would go high. Selwood shrugged his shoulder when he got tackled as a technique to break free of the tackle and move the ball on- some of the time to his detriment as it actually held up play when the umpire called the ball back.
They should have changed the ducking rule because of Selwood but the most overrated captain and player in AFL history was a protected species. Funny they changed the rule just as Selwood was retiring
Third man up rule was definitely because of Blicavs and him abusing it. Jordan Lewis and Jarryd Roughead did do it a bit during their flags, but the AFL didn't really think it did much until Blicavs came around.
🏈🏈🏈 As a Hawks supporter, it honestly still is in my mind in disbelief that Hawks coach Sam Mitchell recruited Jack Ginnivan. Ginnivan is: ( 1 ) A serial cheat by ducking into tackles. ( 2 ) A recovering drug addict. ( 3 ) A clown that went out to the racetrack the night before playing in the 2023 Grand Final. 19 02 2024
I felt like I was taking crazy pills throughout Joel Selwood’s career. Still cannot understand why it wasn’t changed back then. Look how many games he played with strapped head - surely he’s a candidate for brain injuries later in life. And with the AFL incentivising him to do it by paying frees, they will be fully responsible for his injuries.
I think ducking should be a free for the other team at the moment, the amount of players still trying to take advantage over it is insane and I'd love to see it almost completely gone
Was the ducking/dropping the shoulder rule directed at Ginnivan, or does the AFL have favourites? Answer: Both. See how many high free kicks NIck Daicos got in the 2023 grand final from dropping the shoulder/knees (and like you said, Selwood)
Not a player, but a team. Hawks vs Cats GF 2008 - Hawks rushed 11 behinds to get more time. 2009 the AFL changed to the deliberately rushed behind requiring immediate pressure
@@driver4496x hawthorn supporter mate I have been alive for 5 flags in 9 years as a child and another 4 in 8 years as an adult and guess what? None of those flags was from players ducking like gabe itches to win free kicks. Selwood was a blight on the game
Brayshaw's career was obviously only hanging by a thread if that is the case. It was a football action. Brayshaw made absolutely no attempt to protect himself, but rather absorbed all of the contact. You can blame footy's false masculinity idealism for that. (appearing "weak" if reacting/bracing to incoming contact)
Joel Selwood ducked & cheated for 15 years....Being rewarded for it & getting the most free kicks in history for it into the bargain.....The aFL then move to stop it only after he retires....Makes a total mockery of the competition!
If maynerd was bearing down on a collingwood player he would have avoided contact. He wasn't and he put his shoulder in to Brayshaw. He had to be rubbed out. If I was Brayshaw I would be suing maynerd for loss of earnings.
Joel Selwood has won the most courageous player award more than any other player since its creation, Joel Selwood has the most tackles and the most clearances of any player to ever play the game. Getting clearances is the most tackled aspect of the game, he may have thrown up a few elbows to score a free kick, but only the most delusional supporters would argue that Selwood never played hard and earned allot of his free kicks driving head first through players. This is stark contrast to Jack who never even tried to get rid of the ball that year, diving into players to try and get his head ripped off rather than trying to break a tackle, which Selwood ranks 4th in all time behind Gary Ablett jnr, Patrick Dangerfield and Dustin Martin in tackles broken.
He dropped the knees & raised his elbow to cause the high contact himself.....Everyone knows it was a joke except for the aFL & the umpires - or so it seems.
Joel Selwood got twice as many frees as the second most free kick player almost every year If the afl and umpires weren’t so dumb and bias they would have taken it out of the game years ago
@@stevepapas9563 Correct...Which is why all the other players started copying him....Because they see he got rewarded for his ducking, cheating ways; & now it's become a plague & blight on our game because of him.
Sure, tough player....But still a ducking, shrugging, leg-dropping cheat & a blight/ stain on our game. With the aFL & umpires being utterly complicit.
Maynard is not in the wrong. He went to smother the ball aggressively because it's the finals. You can't expect them to play finals and not play finals level footy. He turned away from Brayshaw so he didn't clobber him. Brayshaw also veered right after his kick as that's his kicking style.
Still think the Ginnivan rule is garbage. As far as I'm concerned the tackler has to be obligated to tackle correctly. Ducking is a tactic by the ball carrier to evade the tackle. If tackled correctly then holding the ball, otherwise should be a high tackle. Great video
