Former Brisbane Lions captain Jonathan Brown joins Fox Footy.
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BRISBANE Lions legend Jonathan Brown has called on the AFL to restrict interchange to as few as 60 rotations, worried massive player congestion is ruining the game.
After a two-year freeze on interchange levels the league will seriously consider a reduction to 100 rotations at the end of the season.
The Herald Sun understands it will also take seriously a request from coaches to go back to four interchange members rather than three and a substitute.
It will consider the fairness of the sub rule, potential injuries caused by a lack of rotation and the ramifications on the style of game.
But triple premiership player Brown told the Herald Sun he is concerned about the lack of one-on-one marking contests and says the league must go further than 100.
"I think the game should be restricted a lot more,'' said Brown, announced as Fox Footy's new addition to On The Couch.
"The AFL wanted to go lower (than 120), they got pressure on from the coaches and I didn't think it was a strong enough decision. The game needs to go back to 60 or 80, I believe, because we need to tire out sides and their ability to defend on to chase and tackle. That's the way we open the game up.
"We would see more one-on-one contests in the forward 50. We all go to the game to watch big forwards and it's why a kid like Tom Boyd gets paid a million bucks a year when he's played one season.
"People think the game will look slower. It won't look slower because there will be more space.
"You will have Cyril Rioli running down the wing having eight bounces in the second half and we will say how fast was that game. I would like to see footy open up and the only way we can do that is to heavily restrict interchange to 60 or 80."
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The game was plagued by rolling mauls and congestion early last year before breaking open midway through the season.
The AFL says the sub rule and capped interchange have added real fairness given clubs with one or more injuries cannot be heavily out-rotated by their opposition.
The AFL's coaches pushed hard for 120 interchanges, four on the bench and no sub when they dined with AFL boss Gill McLachlan midway through last season.
But they were told that request would be considered at the end of this year after the two-year freeze on interchange designed to take the sting from the constant discussion.
The league seems no chance to introduce a radical drop in interchange to 60 but could instead make a gradual reduction to 100 or 90.
It fears a cap of 60 would see teams playing periods of footy at breakneck speeds then shutting the game down, conserving energy by chipping sideways and retaining the ball.
The reduction from unlimited interchange to 120 has not seen the dramatic increase in soft tissue injuries many clubs warned about.
Neither does Brown believe there would be a massive change in the type of players recruited if interchange was slashed significantly.
"The counter argument is the game will turn into an over-aerobic sport with marathon runners out there, but going back to Leigh Matthews, to win finals footy you still have to win the contested footy first and foremost
"I don't think Hawthorn would be the best runners in the comp, but on Grand Final day they won the hard balls. You still need your big bulls inside and the big bulls to take contested marks.
"If we restrict interchange we won't see 18 marathon runners out there playing on each other."
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