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Some rule changes with ain to shorten length of each game. Some are minor - but the last touch out of bounds rule I am not sure about. Anyway - the one thing they never mention -for obvious reasons, but is the biggest contributor to game length - is the 30 seconds they take between goals to allow adds to be played.
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Fred wrote: Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:41 am
Some rule changes with ain to shorten length of each game. Some are minor - but the last touch out of bounds rule I am not sure about. Anyway - the one thing they never mention -for obvious reasons, but is the biggest contributor to game length - is the 30 seconds they take between goals to allow adds to be played.
you could prob get it down to 20 seconds>> to get every player back into position>>

but FREDDY that 30 second break is how the AFL get big dollars. Its a luxury to have that many sports do not.
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leeroy*NRL* wrote: Mon Nov 10, 2025 12:15 pm
Fred wrote: Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:41 am
Some rule changes with ain to shorten length of each game. Some are minor - but the last touch out of bounds rule I am not sure about. Anyway - the one thing they never mention -for obvious reasons, but is the biggest contributor to game length - is the 30 seconds they take between goals to allow adds to be played.
you could prob get it down to 20 seconds>> to get every player back into position>>

but FREDDY that 30 second break is how the AFL get big dollars. Its a luxury to have that many sports do not.

Oh yeah totally agree = the AFL get paid handsomely for that 30 seconds no doubt - but doesn't detract from that being by far the biggest contributor to lengthening the average game time since it came in.
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Getting rid of the score reviews will save a lot of time….make it play on when kicking backwards and marking outside the forward 50, that will save time too.
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