The AFL is set to bring down interchange rotations from 90 to 75 in 2021 as part of tweaks to the game.
AFL football operations boss Steve Hocking has confirmed the decision, as well as a second rule change that will see umpires adjudicating the player standing on the mark stricter.
A 50m penalty will imposed on players who move outside a one metre “level of tolerance” laterally off the mark before ‘play on’ has been called.
The mark will also be set at 15 metres from the centre of the kick-off line at kick-ins, pushed back five metres.
Game length will also likely return to 20 minutes plus time-on, though that is yet to be confirmed.
Any chance we could keep the rules the same for once? It’s been hard enough learning it from scratch much less it changing every year. Being an umpire would be a nightmare. Every year there are more changes to AFL than any other sport in the world I feel like. https://t.co/VWyjyqXedr
— Mason Cox (@masonsixtencox) November 18, 2020