What rule would you Add/Remove/Change to improve the game?

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I would do away with shepherding out of the marking contest. It is terribly policed and heaps are missed every match. There is no consistency.

It also doesn’t stack up when you consider what is and isn’t allowed.

Just make it a free for all I reckon.
I also really like this idea, it makes it much more likely that a marking contest will be won by one team or another, rather than "drawn" (end up in a ball up/throw in). Fewer stoppages and faster ball movement (not to mention fewer ticky-tacky frees) is almost always a good thing.
 
Add: suspensions for initiating, staging or drawing high contact deliberately > if you deliberately take someone high you should be suspended, if it's an accident/football incident it should be fine. If you deliberately draw high contact or stage for a free kick you should be suspended.

Remove: Stand rule.

Change: Interchange numbers should be reduced DRASTICALLY. Each benched player should be swapped once/quarter unless for medical reasons > in which case the 'injured' player should be forced to remain on the bench for the next quarter.
Changes at intervals wouldn't count.
 
50 metre penalties for minor offences are a blight on the game.

A rule I would like the AFL to consider is the one the SANFL have been using for around the past 4 years or so. That's the rule of the ball going out of bounds and the opposition gets possession of the ball (like in basketball). I didn't like it much in the beginning, but it really quickens the game up rather than stop for boundary throw ins.

Oh .. and the Stand Rule is an abomination.
 

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Change: Interchange numbers should be reduced DRASTICALLY. Each benched player should be swapped once/quarter unless for medical reasons > in which case the 'injured' player should be forced to remain on the bench for the next quarter.
Changes at intervals wouldn't count.
This would result in a lot more floggings and would not improve the spectacle at all.
 
Get rid of the rule that doesn't allow a player to come over the top and contest the ruck.

Nothing better than seeing a ball up near the goal square and a player (not the ruckmen) grabbing it and kicking a goal from nowhere.

If the current rule was in some years ago then Daniel Wells goal of the year in 2004 wouldn't have counted.

Actually, get rid of nominating the ruckmen as well. That rule, probably more than any other does my head in.
 
Get rid of the rule that doesn't allow a player to come over the top and contest the ruck.

Nothing better than seeing a ball up near the goal square and a player (not the ruckmen) grabbing it and kicking a goal from nowhere.

If the current rule was in some years ago then Daniel Wells goal of the year in 2004 wouldn't have counted.

Actually, get rid of nominating the ruckmen as well. That rule, probably more than any other does my head in.
Not nearly as much as the pre-existing rule that saw blokes penalised for apparently "blocking" the third man up.

We have such short memories at times.
 

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