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Will International footy reshape Australian Football?

Authored by: Christopher P. Adams, Ph.D.
on Tuesday, November 10 2009 @ 12:41 am ACDT

One thing that surprised me recently was that in Australia you have U12s playing 18-a-side on basically a full-size field. This runs contrary to the thinking in youth and adult soccer that small-sided football (5-a-side) is the way to teach the skills and decision making of the game. I think small-sided footy can be an excellent way to give players more touches and help them with skills and moving the ball under-pressure. I grant that it doesn't help teach the long-kicking game - but who does that anymore?

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Will International footy reshape Australian Football?

Authored by: Troy Thompson
on Tuesday, November 10 2009 @ 07:28 am ACDT

Chris - to be honest in many cases there is such demand in terms of numbers that they want to have the maximum on the field to get as many kids involved at once. There are country leagues though where numbers are down (due to population shift) do play lesser numbers.

As for international footy shaping the game I find it unlikely (not impossible). I think it's affects probably pales in to significance to the desire of a good product being provided for the TV stations that pay vast sums for the rights. A game with a high number of rushed behinds does not provide advertising spots like a high goal scoring game does - hence the rule change - you can add the hands in the back interpretation change (which generally only seems to be paid in the forward line) and the chopping of the arms (rule or interpretation change) that have also seemed to be aimed at giving us more goals. Remember that the AFL were not happy with Paul Roos' game style in previous years that led to lower scoring matches.

Changes to rules and interpretations these days flow from the top down and give little consideration as to how they will flow on to grass roots level (e.g finding extra umpires or having rules that really need 3 central umpires to properly apply them, extra officials for interchange etc.). While lower levels of football can ignore what is happening at AFL level there will always be a wish to carry these things through to be as close as possible to the way the game is played at the highest level.

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