Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley with footy manager Geoff Walsh. Picture: Michael Klein Source: Herald Sun
COLLINGWOOD'S football chief Geoff Walsh went to the 2010 season-ending meeting with then AFL football operations boss Adrian Anderson knowing he was wasting his breath.
When it came to the Magpies' turn to speak, in particular on the change to the interchange bench with a substitute, Walsh famously said: "What's the point, Adrian? You've already made up your mind - you just want to say we were consulted."
And so it is with the next change to the interchange bench - the capping of the rotations.
The AFL clubs thought this year's NAB Cup pre-season - in which they are restricted to 80 rotations - was a trial.
But the AFL Commission has already made up its mind - there will be a cap in next year's premiership season.
The only question left is what that cap will be. Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley thinks it should be around the current average of 130.
The expectation is the AFL will choose 120. This is 30 fewer than Adelaide's 2012 average.
Now the AFL has to consider the consequences of the cap. It should know by experience that coaches - all armed with coaching directors and strategists - will spend the next year fearing the cap. And the consequence will be to send football in 2014 back to its ugly days of flooding in the early 2000s.
Coaches will think this way: The cap will:
TIRE players who can no longer catch their breath on the bench.
AS a consequence, defences will be under pressure because midfielders and "floating" half-forwards will not have the energy reserves to trap the ball in their forward half.
Coaches will again favour stacking their defences. They will slow down the game. They will congest the game. They will dust down Paul Roos' premiership-winning playbook of 2005 . . . the one AFL chief Andrew Demetriou labelled as "ugly".
It is inevitable.
So every effort of the Laws of the Game committee to restore "continuous play" and to speed up the game will be lost.
The AFL's argument that the "furious" use of the interchange bench has increased the speed of the game - and with it the risk of serious high-impact injuries - is not supported by the game's latest medical report.
Rather, there is good reason to argue from the increase in soft-tissue injuries, as noted in the league's medical report, that limiting the bench with a substitute has proven the fear a cap leads to player fatigue.
There is still no sound reason offered by the AFL for a cap on interchange rotations. But there is good reason to fear the AFL will bring back football's ugly tactics with a cap.
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