Rushed Behind Rule

[westdog54]

Re: Rushed Behind Rule

Wouldn't he just take his kick back on the goal line anyway if he was so content to rush it.

Then you walk up to him, rip the ball out of his hands and run it to the 50m line. Failing that, when the 50m penalty is paid you stand behind him and the instand he turns around you tackle him.

[hujsh]

Re: Rushed Behind Rule

Then you walk up to him, rip the ball out of his hands and run it to the 50m line. Failing that, when the 50m penalty is paid you stand behind him and the instand he turns around you tackle him.

Aggressive, I like it.

[Rocco Jones]

Re: Rushed Behind Rule

A 50m penalty would/should not have made any difference. You aren't forced to accept the advantage of a 50m penalty. You can take take your kick/play on from anywhere behind the mark as long as you are in line with it. Bowden would/should just stay on the goal life in that scenario.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Rushed Behind Rule

I'm staggered that no one has suggested the obvious, tiny adjustment to the rule that would solve the entire issue:

In soccer, the rule for a goalkick is that it has to travel outside the penalty area and be touched by another player in order for it to be considered 'legitimate'. If it is touched before it leaves the penalty area it is to be retaken.

With a kick-in in AFL, why isn't the rule just reworded to say that play (and time) doesn't start until the ball leaves the goalsquare, and thus no time-wasting advantage is gained? So instead of marking play by the kicker kicking the ball to himself if they're not kicking it to another player, the kicker has to run OUT of the goalsquare (across the 'front' line of the goalsquare, not the side lines) to restart the game (which is supposed to be the whole idea of the kick to self anyway, right?). This is a minor adjustment, not open to interpretation and easy to adjudicate, that keeps the intent of the original rule and has no discernible impact on the flow of the game at all, which is what all rule adjustments (if any) should be trying to do instead of changing the entire fabric of the game.

If a player still runs out of the goalsquare then runs back or handballs back in to rush a behind, they're taking a higher risk of either being tackled in their own goalsquare or turning the ball over, but that's just the nature of the game and not 'externally imposed' by some rule change.

Simple, I would have thought. Or am I missing something?

[Bornadog]

Re: Rushed Behind Rule

I'm staggered that no one has suggested the obvious, tiny adjustment to the rule that would solve the entire issue:

In soccer, the rule for a goalkick is that it has to travel outside the penalty area and be touched by another player in order for it to be considered 'legitimate'. If it is touched before it leaves the penalty area it is to be retaken.

With a kick-in in AFL, why isn't the rule just reworded to say that play (and time) doesn't start until the ball leaves the goalsquare, and thus no time-wasting advantage is gained? So instead of marking play by the kicker kicking the ball to himself if they're not kicking it to another player, the kicker has to run OUT of the goalsquare (across the 'front' line of the goalsquare, not the side lines) to restart the game (which is supposed to be the whole idea of the kick to self anyway, right?). This is a minor adjustment, not open to interpretation and easy to adjudicate, that keeps the intent of the original rule and has no discernible impact on the flow of the game at all, which is what all rule adjustments (if any) should be trying to do instead of changing the entire fabric of the game.

If a player still runs out of the goalsquare then runs back or handballs back in to rush a behind, they're taking a higher risk of either being tackled in their own goalsquare or turning the ball over, but that's just the nature of the game and not 'externally imposed' by some rule change.

Simple, I would have thought. Or am I missing something?

I hate rule changes, but this little adjustment would as you say, not change the fabric of the game.