{"id":11597,"date":"2018-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/here-are-the-massive-changes-coming-to-the-afl\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T00:00:00","slug":"here-are-the-massive-changes-coming-to-the-afl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/here-are-the-massive-changes-coming-to-the-afl\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are The \u201cMassive Changes\u201d Coming To The AFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Some huge rule changes are likely to be implemented for the 2019 season, reports Kane Cornes.<\/h3>\n<p>Three or four items from a list of 35 considered by legends of the game during an AFL working group, says Cornes, received strong support\u2026 including:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201c1: Extend the size of the goal square so the player kicking in can launch the ball over the centre of the ground and automatically clear the congestion. One panel member even suggested the size of the square be increased to 25 metres.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201c2: Last touch out of bounds. This has been introduced at SANFL level and has been proven to reduce the amount of stoppages and the length of games.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201c3: Designated starting positions at centre bounces. Three forwards inside a 25m zone, three forwards between 50 and 25m, six midfielders, and the defenders in the same formation as the forwards.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Malcolm Blight, Gerard Healy, Leigh Matthews and Mike Sheahan were all on Thursday&#8217;s panel considering changes to improve the look of the game.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Massive changes&quot; to the game are on their way, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanecornes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kanecornes<\/a> has revealed what they might be | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JrgTHxrw9N\">https:\/\/t.co\/JrgTHxrw9N<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uun5A9TCkd\">pic.twitter.com\/Uun5A9TCkd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SEN 1116 (@1116sen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1116sen\/status\/1004891593780760577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some huge rule changes are likely to be implemented for the 2019 season, reports Kane Cornes. Three or four items from a list of 35 considered by legends of the game during an AFL working group, says Cornes, received strong support\u2026 including: \u201c1: Extend the size of the goal square so the player kicking in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-11597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Here Are The \u201cMassive Changes\u201d Coming To The AFL - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/here-are-the-massive-changes-coming-to-the-afl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Here Are The \u201cMassive Changes\u201d Coming To The AFL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some huge rule changes are likely to be implemented for the 2019 season, reports Kane Cornes. 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