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Pressure down but not everyone wins: how new rules will change the AFL – The Age

Early indications are that AFL games may be more open this year – but teams that try to play a high-energy style for a whole game run out of gas.

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MAN ON THE MARK
Now the man on the mark is a witchs hat. He cant move forward, back or sidewards once an umpire calls stand.
The player does not have to stand where the umpire says the mark is but if the player is within five metres of that mark he will be called to stop where he is until play-on is called.
This opens enormous scope for the player with the ball to kick at 45-degree angles and find players in space in the corridor that were previously denied to them by the defenders on the mark.

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