{"id":248795,"date":"2025-10-29T14:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248795\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:08:48","slug":"former-afl-player-and-umpires-snap-reaction-to-rule-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248795\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AFL player and umpire&#8217;s snap reaction to rule changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the 2026 season, the AFL have officially announced seven rule changes which is headlined by the last touch rule.<\/p>\n<p>Former AFL star Scott Camporeale joined Wide World of Sports and reacted to the rule changes that have been made by the AFL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they\u2019re all necessary,\u201d Camporeale said on Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to listen to Scott Camporeale\u2019s reaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former AFL umpire Dean Margetts joined Wide World of Sports and gave his perspective on the changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll make it a bit easier to umpire,\u201d Margetts said on Wide World of Sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to listen to Dean Margetts\u2019 thoughts on 3AW\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image: Michael Willson\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the 2026 season, the AFL have officially announced seven rule changes which is headlined by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-248795","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\/248795","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=248795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}