I'm glad you understand the rules, polly because you'd be the only one.
AFL must the only game where the rules don't really change that much as they are written but they change vastly , almost week by week due to ad hoc, knee-jerk reactions. Coaches keep saying "it's a hard game to umpire" and that's true because one week a rule as written means one thing and the next week, the exact same written rule means something completely different.
This is before you you include the vastly different application of the rules in the same game. Consistency is not a trait you would associate with the AFL. Having read that meaningless pile of garbage put out by AFL House, I still have no idea what they will be doing this year because apparently based on the AFL's letter, they're actually going to enforce rules that currently already exist.
Who knows what that will entail?
