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A one-in-100 result: New rule nearly unsighted in scratch match – The Age

AFL’s new ‘stand’ rule for player on the mark just a one-in-a-hundred moment in Wednesday’s AFL scratch match.

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There will be occasions a guy will take a mark and roll inboard quickly so a lot of the times we are not going to have the opportunity for us to call stand. Obviously for a slow play a guy takes a mark will go back and he might wait for or five seconds before he then plays on.
Those opportunities, when a player comes in to stand the mark we will then say stand but look it happens 80 to 110 or 120 times a game.
The fact that we paid one today out of all of those instances I think shows that there…

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