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All players around the ball has also never been part of the game

Yes I agree. We need to get serious. We need to stop the coaches ruining the game.

Have you seen a game with starting positions? If the answer is "no" then how do you know that you won't love it?

On-field umpires don't officiate the starting positions. It's officiated by an off-field umpire who docks the team rotations for every breach of the rule. That way there's no extra whistles, no extra free-kicks and no new rules for the on-field umpire to adjudicate.

What about the previous three quarters?

I'm not convinced by this idea because the players are so super fit these days that the'll still be able to congregate around the ball.

Coaches will still direct their players to congregate around the ball. We want to stop the coaches from using that tactic. It's that very tactic that's ruined the game.

Will that stop the coaches from moving all the players around the ball?

On field umpires don't police the starting positions. You have an off field umpire who docks rotations from the team with every breach of the rule.

It doesn't turn it into netball. The game becomes what it has been for a hundred years

Forty four years old

Does sixteen players per side stop the coaches from having everyone around the ball?

You'll never spread the players out with small rules changes like 666 or limiting rotations. The only way is to force them to spread out.

Totally agree. Zones or starting positions brings back the aspect of the game which we all love and that's players spread throughout the field. I've never heard anyone say they enjoy the congestion of the modern game. Let's get serious and get rid of it!

We still have the same problem. There's too many players around the ball. Why?.., because that's what the coaches want We all want the prayers to spread out, but the coaches won't do it. So the solution is to force the prayers to spread out. How?... by having three or four players from each team in the forward fifties at every stoppage. It's a new rule that you won't even notice. All you'll notice is that the players are spread out more.

Yes but he could help the team more as a forward which is what we desperately need

Is it time to put Tomlinson at full forward? Not convinced he's a wingman.

Forget Weideman as a forward. It's not going to happen.

Fair point

Why was the player's name made public? A person's medical conditions are private.

Sometimes you have to pay overs to get players to move

That's when you know our defence has problems

Some coaches do very well in their first year or two of coaching but then opposition coaches figure them out and they have no answer. They then struggle for the rest of their career not able to come up with a good plan.

Journalists are warming up they keyboards. If goes down; "You shouldn't of rushed him back"

I mean in terms of winning a premiership, not so much home and away matches. In other words, does it look like a premiership winning defence?