Swans coach John Longmire. Picture: Mark Evans Source: The Daily Telegraph
REIGNING premiership coach John Longmire believes rocketing interchange numbers will stabilise without the AFL's intervention as he pushes for a retention of current rules.
Longmire believes loosening of the 80-interchange cap because of pre-season heat mean the NAB Cup trial of limited rotations will be close to meaningless.
He said yesterday the 80-cap trial should be carried out over a year at a lower level like VFL or SANFL.
While some clubs have passed through 150 interchanges in single games, Longmire says massive interchange becomes counter-productive.
The AFL Commission has ruled in principle to introduce a capped rotation next year but wants more evidence first.
"I think the players are at a point where it is getting to a maximum," Longmire said.
"We got to an average of 132 per game last year and we feel that's about it.
"The players still have to play the game and still want to get into the game and not be on and off for the sake of it.
"Players themselves start to say I am on the ground and the challenge is to sprint off, and by the time you get off you sprint like anything and then sit down for two seconds and then sprint on. You are better off standing there (on the field) anyway.
"Some things in the game find their natural level."
North Melbourne coach Brad Scott this week said he was fearful the game would one day be unrecognisable because of AFL tinkering.
But AFL legend and Rules of the Game member Kevin Bartlett hit back, saying coaching should be ignored when it came to changing rules.
Longmire does not want an interchange cap: "We would like to maintain the status quo".
But he says the AFL needs to produce evidence promoting the cap that it is unlikely to find in the NAB Cup.
"In the pre-season different clubs are doing different things and as we have seen with the heat, are we going to get that over the next couple of weeks, which might affect the data over a short period of time?" he said.
"Are there other ways of getting bigger data and bigger samples over a longer period of time so you can sit and reflect and say these are the pros and cons of it over 12 months in this league?"
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