00:00Speaking of the laws of the game, you're a bit annoyed about what's happening with the lasso rule.
00:05Yeah, obviously you used another cowboy term, ricochet.
00:08That's a cowboy movie thing as well as lasso.
00:10I'll take your word for that.
00:11So it's now become the ricochet rule.
00:13It's not what it was for, is it?
00:15It should be a disposal handball or a kick that is a bit wayward
00:18or looks like the old deliberate out-of-bounds rule.
00:21Not a deflection off the foot that we have to check that's an accident.
00:25Now, we've talked about this at the start of the year, Stephen,
00:27but when this came, it started to creep into the game and the officiating.
00:31It's a last disposal rule.
00:32It should be a clean handball or kick out-of-bounds.
00:35It is a free kick to the opposition team.
00:37Any incidental contact on the way through or on the line, as you say,
00:40rolls out off a foot or a hand or whatever it might be, that's not a disposal.
00:44You don't get a number, a stat for that in the stat column.
00:47So if it's not a stat in the stat column,
00:48you don't get a free kick for it for the opposition when it goes out-of-bounds.
00:51And we've talked about this, and I know that headquarters AFL HQ
00:55loves the show.
00:57They love six points on a Monday morning.
00:59They can't get enough of it.
01:00And Swanee is going to do something about that for us.
01:02I'm sure about it.
01:03I'm sure he's going to fix that because it's not the interpretation.
01:05It's not the way the law is written,
01:07but it's the way it's been given at the moment, which is not right.
01:09Yeah.
01:10The little things annoy people.
01:12Yeah, they do.
01:13And it's a messy part of the game.
01:14And I just still don't like players pulling away
01:17to make sure they don't touch it and all that sort of carry on.
01:20So there's some good parts with that rule and some bad parts.
01:23For me, a lot of it doesn't feel like footy.
01:25I tell you, if you just umpire it as it's written, it's fantastic.
01:29It'll be fine.
01:30It's a really good thing, I reckon.
01:31I'm a supporter of the last touch, last disposal rule,
01:33but it's got to be interpreted the way it's written
01:35and not just this incidental contact situation,
01:38which you're talking about, Steve.
