Adrian Anderson
Adrian Anderson
element
Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised,
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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.
discretion explain factors outline provide scholars-and-scholarship system
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.
discretion explain factors follow parameters people provide reached system
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.
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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.
clubs feedback people players providing
It is really for the clubs and players and people providing their feedback to let us know,
case coaches committee discussed input process rather relying season sitting talking
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.
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As much as they might like to be camouflaged at times, we don't think they will be sufficiently camouflaged by the grass.
match point regional trial
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.
combined concerns points prior
There were concerns that the weighting of prior offences when combined with carryover points may become excessive.
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A player whose only offence in the past five years was a financial sanction will be eligible for a five-year good record.
complaint confirmed intend reports
No reports were lodged and the Bulldogs haven't lodged any complaint and we confirmed with the Bulldogs they don't intend to.
challenge clubs learn match occasion opportunity players plays provides strategies test umpires using
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.
behaved main players reason suspect
I suspect the main reason is that the players are fundamentally well behaved on-field. They have become more and more disciplined.