could someone explain the push in the back rule to me? i mean, i know it's been shaken up recently with the hands in the back thing, and the falling forward in a tackle, but i thought they were ADDITIONS to the rule. in yesterday's game the only time a push in the back was paid was if it involved either hands in the back or the bloke falling forward in a tackle. lynchy gave grover a solid elbow in the back and grover fell forward. push in the back in my book, not in the AFL book. an eagles bloke goes for mark of the year by flattening a dockers player with a boot and drops the mark. push in the back in my book, not in the other book. these weren't the only times, but the only ones that stuck.

also, when is an incident behind the play, and when do these incidents not affect anything? josh carr was grabbed by the shirt and dragged to the ground while the eagles were running the ball up the ground. nothing. a dockers defender brushes an eagles player on the chest [at least that's what the umpire was signalling] and the ball moves from the eagle's half back flank to the eagles forward line quicker than you can say "what's that signal for?"
i thought i knew the rules, but clearly i don't.