Sydney's Gary Rohan is stretchered off with a serious leg injury after a sliding incident at the SCG. Picture: Phil Hillyard Source: News Limited
PLAYERS can now be reported for making forceful contact below an opponent's knee in changes to the match review panel soon to be announced by the AFL.
The league is also set to clamp down further on sliding tackles - or approaching a contest feet or knees-first - which will now be a reportable offence.
The crackdown on contact below the knees has been rapid fire.
In October, the AFL Commission announced it would tighten the forceful-contact-below-the-knees rule, informing clubs umpires would pay free kicks on the spot from next season.
Yesterday, the commission was told those rules had been further tightened to the extent that dangerous front-on contact could lead to a player being reported.
AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson said yesterday the crackdown was simply to protect players.
"Sliding knees or feet first can now be a reportable offence for rough conduct and forceful conduct below the knees if it's unreasonable in the circumstances," Anderson said.
"Now it's backed up as a tribunal offence.
"Players owe a duty to their opponents players."
Already players have raised concerns about how incidents and impact below the knees can be policed and in fact be avoided.
"There's always interpretations, debate and discussion and that's the part of the tribunal, but no more than anything else," Anderson said.
"PLayer welfare, that's the consistent theme."
This season the league took a strong stance against players sliding into opponents, sending a memo to clubs in May warning of the potential risk of injury.
Sydney's Gary Rohan suffered a sickening broken leg when Kangaroo Lindsay Thomas slid into him at the SCG in April.
Thomas was charged with rough conduct and initially banned for two weeks, but later cleared by the tribunal on appeal.
Charges are expected to be more common place next season.
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