{"id":248115,"date":"2025-10-29T06:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248115\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:59:08","slug":"afl-tweaks-rules-to-speed-up-game-and-enhance-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248115\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL tweaks rules to speed up game and enhance entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL has announced seven rule changes for the 2026 season, including a free kick for the last disposal out of bounds between the fifty-metre arcs.<\/p>\n<p>Click PLAY to hear rule breakdown.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Adam Papalia, 6PR Football guru, discussed these changes with Perth Live host Oliver Peterson, explaining that the AFL aims to speed up the game. <\/p>\n<p>Papalia commented, \u2018I was surprised that they didn\u2019t actually reduce the game time; there\u2019s been talk of that going back to 18 minutes,\u2019 adding, \u2018I still think that might happen in the future,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hear more highlights from Perth Live below and download the 6PR app on <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/au\/app\/6pr\/id443067670\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.thisisaim.radio6pr&amp;hl=en_AU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a>\u00a0to ensure you don\u2019t miss a thing!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Image: Daniel Carson\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AFL has announced seven rule changes for the 2026 season, including a free kick for the last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-248115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}