04-25-2022, 10:54 AM
(04-25-2022, 10:32 AM)Mav link Wrote:If the AFL wants to reduce knee-to-knee contact in the ruck contests, I doubt the answer would be prohibiting ruckmen from looking at each other. There's always peripheral vision anyway. The solution would be to reduce the size of the outer circle which currently has a radius of 5m. Reducing it to 3m would reduce the speed of the ruckmen at impact. It would also favour the ruckmen who, like TDK, have an excellent vertical leap or those like Sandilands who are very tall. I'd imagine that change would work against the Mumford-style ruckmen who rely on their physical strength and therefore I would suggest it would work against Pittonet.I don't mind that reduction in radius idea. Means the TDK types have an advantage at centre bounces but around the ground the gorillas get an advantage back. Ultimately if it reduces the knee to knee injuries why not.