Adrian Anderson Quotations

I suspect the main reason is that the players are fundamentally well behaved on-field. They have become more and more disciplined.

We discussed a process of actually me sitting down with the coaches after the end of the season and talking about where the laws' committee is at and getting the input face-to-face with the coaches, rather than relying on a coaches' representative on the laws' committee, which has been the case in the past.

There has been great debate and interest around the NAB Cup with these rules and there will be plenty of debate for weeks to come and we look forward to it.

Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised,

What this system endeavours to do is to provide some factors which outline the discretion, which explain the discretion and make it accountable and transparent.

What this system endeavours to do, ... is provide factors which explain the discretion and make it transparent and accountable (and) some parameters by which people can follow how they've reached their decision.

These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their umpiring ranks about being able to retain numbers.

No reports were lodged and the Bulldogs haven't lodged any complaint and we confirmed with the Bulldogs they don't intend to.

The NAB Challenge provides the AFL an opportunity to test rules, it provides clubs the opportunity to test new players and set plays and strategies and we are using the occasion to test an idea to see if there is anything we can learn from having umpires officiating the match from different angles.

A player whose only offence in the past five years was a financial sanction will be eligible for a five-year good record.

There was no thought to introducing this in the NAB Cup. This is a very preliminary, experimental trial only for a regional match at this point of time.

There were concerns that the weighting of prior offences when combined with carryover points may become excessive.

As much as they might like to be camouflaged at times, we don't think they will be sufficiently camouflaged by the grass.

It is really for the clubs and players and people providing their feedback to let us know,

It's not a matter of which is the appropriate definition to be applied, ... but what it (i.e. the action) was.

I don't want to go into my view at the moment.