AFL legend David King is not a fan of the AFLโs latest rule changes.
King believes that gone are the days of high scoring football with the game naturally evolving to this point.
โHigh scoring is gone. I think weโve all just got to agree that the game has changed. It is now far more strategic than it ever was and if youโre going to try and correct the game to get 120 points per team per game, then youโre kidding yourselves,โ King toldย SEN Breakfast.
โAnd youโll forever change the rules to the point where the game will be unrecognisable.
โI donโt like the constant tinkering of rules. I donโt. Because a lot of these things, they really donโt have an outcome, they just create more tension for the fans.
The latest rule change regarding the interchange rotations hasnโt sat well with Kingy.
โThe rotations dropping by 15. Seriously? What is that going to do?
โYou wonโt even notice. If theyโre going to do it, slash it in half. Go to 40, see what that does to the game and you can always correct it back. You can always pull it back if itโs gone too far.
โI still think youโve got to make the boundary line the enemy and keep the corridor open.
โYouโre not going to get the game back to what it was in the 1980s and 1990s or the early 2000s and maybe thatโs not what weโre trying to do.
โI think the game is in great shape and we need to leave it.โ
