offered a $1000 fine for striking Nick Daicos in a controversial June incident<\/a>, could now be suspended for the same action – though in his case it was a fixed financial sanction and not fully graded.<\/p>\nAnother proposed change already floated would see Match Review Officer Michael Christian to tweak the impact grading of incidents which result in a concussion.<\/p>\n
Previously these incidents have automatically been graded as severe which resulted in three-week bans for incidents like bumps and tackles which many inside and outside the footy world felt deserved no penalty – or at least a much lighter one.<\/p>\n
Nick Daicos is hit in the sternum by Marcus Windhager.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
An adjustment to the repeat fine system would see players no longer cop escalating fines for multiple low-level offences, unless they are the exact same offence, while fines would only accumulate over one year instead of two.<\/p>\n
This would have saved players almost $130,000 last year alone. In total $627,975 worth of fines were handed down in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
It also means players would need to be penalised four times for umpire contact in a season before facing a potential suspension, rather than four times over two seasons, making it much less likely for a ban to be handed out.<\/p>\n
Other proposals include:<\/p>\n
– Pushing a player into a marking contest to be enshrined as rough conduct, following a mid-season tweak in 2025;<\/p>\n
– Teams playing on a Thursday night can have Tribunal hearings heard on the prior Monday, instead of having to wait until Tuesday;<\/p>\n
– Sponsorship logos on headbands and offensive symbols or images on uniforms or skin are banned; <\/p>\n
– The ability for Andrew Dillon or Greg Swann to nominate a Mark of the Year or Goal of the Year contender that doesn\u2019t win the weekly vote;<\/p>\n
– The All-Australian team to contain 23 players with five on the bench;<\/p>\n
– Confirmation of the substitute being removed and a wildcard finals round expanding the post-season to 10 teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AFL has proposed multiple changes to its regulations for the 2026 season including the ability to suspend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-347525","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\/347525","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=347525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}