Talk:Laws of Australian football

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Contents 1 Name 2 Scragging 3 Significant rule changes 4 Ball Boys 5 WTF is 'scragging' 6 Bounce every 10m

[edit] Name

I understand why this has been moved around, but it is not correct. The rules of the game are contained in an document called "Laws of Australian Football". The capitalisation should be retained as part of the name of the document, not based on how Australian football is usually written. The fact that the article is about the document is shown by the fact that the first sentence refers to the Laws as singular, rather than plural. JPD 10:15, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Actually, this article is about the abstract concept of the game(the contents of the document), not the document itself. IIRC, the document says "LAWS OF AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL" anyway. The reason I moved it to the lower case was to make it case insensitive (but this one is good). bjmurph _talk‽ 03:00, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

You are right about the cover of the document, and also that it is probably better to have an article about the contents. For that reason, I'm fixing the first sentence. JPD 10:48, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Scragging

Could someone add a definition of scragging? --Joshd 23:53, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Significant rule changes

I find it hard to believe that there were no rule changes from 1897 until 1986. What about the elimination of the flick pass? Wasn't a rugby style pass previously allowed? I'm sure there would be others.

The rule changes list is clearly not comprehensive. If anyone has more information of the more significant changes it woudl be good to include, otherwise perhaps we should drop the list? JPD (talk) 19:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Anyone remember when the bench was expanded to 4 players? Dannow 12:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ball Boys

At the Freo Collingwood match I noticed this stealthy addition to our game - I haven't really had the time to look at the 2006 rules, but somebody told me that the reason they're there is the rule relating to the kick in before the flag waving. Does this mean that the rule that says the same ball had to be used for the whole game (barring puncture etc) has now been changed? If so, I think this is a pretty major thing that needs to be mentioned. bjmurph _talk‽ 10:09, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

That rule has not changed... so yeah its pretty stupid.--Dacium 01:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WTF is 'scragging'

And why does it link to a page that makes no mention of it?--Dacium 01:01, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bounce every 10m

It is highly unlikely that a sport invented in pre-1960s Australia would require a player to bounce every 10 meters. Was this previously 10 yards? Or some other measurement? --58.107.194.103 (talk) 13:42, 1 May 2008 (UTC)