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THE CHOPPING THE ARM RULE AS LONG AS THE PUSH IN THE BACK
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Pushing out in a marking competition (Also known as hands in the back). When a player deliberately pushes a bloke out of the contest I'm fine with it. But when you powder puff place your hands on a bloke just to protect your feet or that, and the phlegm in coloured hankies like loud mouthed Ray can't tell the difference between the 2 I'm not OK with it.......
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the hands in the back rule. it's not so much the push in the back rule, but just the hands in the back in a marking contest. it's absolutely bullsh!t that rule. it has no meaning. i'd love to know how many goals/direct scoring opportunities there have been from that cr@p rule in the last year.
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Hands in the back

Chopping of the arms

Lining up for goals after a mark or free the kicker gets extra time

Any attacking side mark in the square automatically kicks from directly in front.

Now the WORST rule ZERO TOLERANCE you cant even show emotion about these crappy hard to interpret rules, your expected to be a good little pleb and happily watch forwards kick soft goals all game long
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Is there a rule that states you can't beat the c**p out of Andrew Demitreou, just for the h**l of it?

If so , thats it.
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The one that lets Collingwood play in the competition
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Not being allowed to abuse the umpire - this is the worst rule ever brought in to any sport. Let's face it even soccer players get to push the ump around and intimidate him but in AFL you can't even say his decision was **********. Time to bring in the ladies from the country womens association to serve tea and bikkies at quarter time.
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hands on back
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Holding rule in a rucking or marking contest

How do you pick out a free kick when most of the time both players are infringing in some form in a marking or rucking contest.

I guess it comes down to when the umpire turns his eyes to the contest. So I am assuming that the umpire will pay a free kick to the first infringement that he sees instead of who started the infringement.

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good question, you should email the results to ANDY PANDY.

It has to be the airy fairy hand in in someones back, backman are getting crucified, why the same rule does not apply around the ground,(if richo, in the first game, when running back wasn't a free, then i ain't here, he was crunched in the back, then they give frees for a slight hand in the back)

the other one is hitting the arms in a marking contest, stupid, i was always taught if you cant mark it, make sure you whack your opponents arms, force the ball to the ground.

the rules are becoming laughable, no, they already are!
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The push in the back rule - No longer can a forward, back, or any player for that matter hold their position in a marking contest. Now as soon as a player in front feels any contact they dive forward to get the free. It's just so frustrating.
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The push in the back rule - it makes the game so frustrating to watch. Stupid umpires are over zealous in trying to control that rule on the ground
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The chopping of the hands/arms.

All backmen, from day one, have been taught to spoil forwards by those means. One cannot touch their backs (hands in back rule) can't touch their arms/hands when going for a spoil. It's becoming too protective for the forwards. They can try anything & if they give a free kick away it's not as damning as when a back does it to a forward - goal!
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The chopping of the arms rule. I mean what the h**l is all that about?

Even though... the umpires seem to change the rules every week -_-
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Head high tackles, bring them back, only kidding, seriously the chopping of the arms in a marking contest.
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chopping the arms and the ligt push in the back (touch the back and your gone), makes the backlines job harder then it already is especially against power forwards such as jonathon brown and mathew pavlich
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No footy on television in America so us Yanks that love footy can see the games. No television here since the 2005 GF.

This was Andrew's decision, the stupid wanker. He signed a contract with a satellite only channel that nobody here in America can see.

What a dumb ar*e or here in America, dumb a**
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