AFL Rd 18 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Geelong

[ElwoodBlues1]

AFL Statement today:

“We want to be clear, if the umpire believes the ball carrier is responsible for the high contact, then they won’t be rewarded.

“First and foremost, players attempting to win the ball must be protected and the onus of duty of care is on the tackler. However, having won the ball, the ball carrier has a duty of care to not put themselves in a position for high contact.

“Ultimately, the rules do not reward players for putting themselves in vulnerable positions to draw a free kick. This is something we prefer not to see in our game at any level.

Be a novelty seeing players like Selwood go unrewarded for staging high contact for a few weeks but then it will revert to normal viewing and umps will be paying the name players a free for staged high contact and letting the no name players get their heads ripped off under the guise they are cracking down on stagers..