Talk:Laws of Australian rules football

AFL Rules committee

Is there a list of people on it? how dose the rules go through the committee much more information needed could someone please fill in :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.111.96.247 (talk) 06:51, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Name

I understand why this has been moved around, but it is not correct. The rules of the game are contained in an document called "Laws of Australian Football". The capitalisation should be retained as part of the name of the document, not based on how Australian football is usually written. The fact that the article is about the document is shown by the fact that the first sentence refers to the Laws as singular, rather than plural. JPD 10:15, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Actually, this article is about the abstract concept of the game(the contents of the document), not the document itself. IIRC, the document says "LAWS OF AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL" anyway. The reason I moved it to the lower case was to make it case insensitive (but this one is good). bjmurph _talk‽ 03:00, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

You are right about the cover of the document, and also that it is probably better to have an article about the contents. For that reason, I'm fixing the first sentence. JPD 10:48, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Scragging

Could someone add a definition of scragging? --Joshd 23:53, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Significant rule changes

I find it hard to believe that there were no rule changes from 1897 until 1986. What about the elimination of the flick pass? Wasn't a rugby style pass previously allowed? I'm sure there would be others.

The rule changes list is clearly not comprehensive. If anyone has more information of the more significant changes it woudl be good to include, otherwise perhaps we should drop the list? JPD (talk) 19:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Anyone remember when the bench was expanded to 4 players? Dannow 12:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Ball Boys

At the Freo Collingwood match I noticed this stealthy addition to our game - I haven't really had the time to look at the 2006 rules, but somebody told me that the reason they're there is the rule relating to the kick in before the flag waving. Does this mean that the rule that says the same ball had to be used for the whole game (barring puncture etc) has now been changed? If so, I think this is a pretty major thing that needs to be mentioned. bjmurph _talk‽ 10:09, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

That rule has not changed... so yeah its pretty stupid.--Dacium 01:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

WTF is 'scragging'

And why does it link to a page that makes no mention of it?--Dacium 01:01, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Bounce every 10m

It is highly unlikely that a sport invented in pre-1960s Australia would require a player to bounce every 10 meters. Was this previously 10 yards? Or some other measurement? --58.107.194.103 (talk) 13:42, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out. I have corrected this. --Rulesfan (talk) 01:28, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Picking the ball up off the ground

I can't seem to find any information about when this became part of the game, as it was clearly outlawed in the early Melbourne Rules. It certainly is a key skill now and one of the areas which differentiates it from Gaelic Football. It is also one of the areas which causes some of the highest danger in the professional football and isn't allowed in variations like Rec Footy for this reason. Anyone know when picking up the ball was allowed ? Was it in the 1866 changes ? --Rulesfan (talk) 01:31, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Clarification needed

Regarding

Four posts are erected at either end of the oval and markings are placed on the ground as shown in the diagram below. They are aligned in a straight line 6.4 metres apart from each other.

- this is unclear - exactly what is the "they" that are 6.4 m apart? I assume that it's the posts; but several other nouns intervene; some might interpret this as, for example, the markings being 6.4 m apart. Could it be reworded to, say,

... the diagram below. The posts are aligned ...

or re-order the whole paragraph, keeping the mentions of the markings together:

The size of the ground is not fixed, but must be 135-185m long and 110-155m wide. Four posts are erected at either end of the oval, aligned in a straight line 6.4 metres apart from each other. Markings are placed on the ground as shown in the diagram below; lines are drawn on the field to mark

--Redrose64 (talk) 16:17, 6 June 2010 (UTC)