In this file picture, Joel Selwood lays on the ground after being knocked out by Farren Ray as substitute Darren Milburn looks on. Picture: George Salpigtidis. Source: News Limited
CALL the AFL lawmakers cynical, but they have already seen through the cracks of the game's new concussion rule.
It reads as follows:
A PLAYER can be taken off the field to be tested for 20 minutes and replaced by the substitute, provided the substitute is wearing the green vest.
If the club doctors rule the head-dizzy player does not have concussion, he can return to the field and the substitute can return to the interchange bench to wear the green vest again.
BUT, if the substitute is in the red vest - indicating he has been taken out of the game earlier - he cannot return to the field to cover for a teammate during that 20-minute window for a concussion test.
The team has to play with just two interchange players in this scenario and two players on the sidelines, one being tested for concussion and the other left cooling his heels in the red vest.
It is fair to say there is a fair bit of confusion around the AFL clubs today. Football operations chiefs and coaches
are asking why should the colour of the vest determine whether a player can cover for a teammate being tested for concussion.
Again and again, club coaches and managers have told The Advertiser: "We wouldn't send an injured player back out, but if the sub is fit and can cover while we check another player for concussion, why not let him back on?"
For the first time, the AFL has realised whenever it writes a rule there is a great temptation in clubland to exploit it.
So here is the league's logic on distinguishing between the green and red vests for the concussion rule.
The league has found a fit player is usually substituted to wear the red vest late in the third term or early in the last for tactical reasons.
The AFL anticipates coaches will use the substitute earlier say just after half-time if they can reactivate this player in the last term by exploiting the new concussion rule.
At three-quarter-time the coach could tell a failing player he is to fake dizziness, be called off for a 20-minute concussion test and be replaced by the player taken off at half-time.
In essence, the coach gets to make two or three substitutions rather than the legal one.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou says he has cut off one way for the clubs to exploit the concussion rule and hopes they will not play tricks with the one he has left open with green-vested substitutes.
"It's what the clubs wanted," Demetriou said of the concussion rule. "They've been told not to exploit it and we've got to take them at their word.
"I've said before, the days are gone of people trying to cut corners.
"The concussion rule is there for legitimate reasons."
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Seeing red over head knock rule
Dengan url
http://sudahterlupakan.blogspot.com/2013/03/seeing-red-over-head-knock-rule.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Seeing red over head knock rule
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
Seeing red over head knock rule
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar