{"id":53618,"date":"2025-08-08T19:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53618\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:20:15","slug":"why-sentimental-afl-rule-needs-to-be-rethought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53618\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8216;sentimental&#8217; AFL rule needs to be rethought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geelong Cats CEO Steve Hocking believes the time of AFL father-sons may be coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Despite benefiting from some great players, such as Garry Ablett Junior, Tom Hawkins, and Matthew Scarlett, Hocking believes that the father-son rule cannot compromise elements like the AFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a really nice piece of the game and we\u2019ve had a substantial amount of father-sons,\u201d Hocking said on 3AW Football.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to listen to the full interview with Geelong CEO Steve Hocking, Matthew Lloyd, and Jimmy Bartel\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a sentimental thing, but the game is so professional we probably need to be thinking about the compromise it has on the draft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image Credits:\u00a0Getty, Morgan Hancock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong Cats CEO Steve Hocking believes the time of AFL father-sons may be coming to an end. Despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-53618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53618","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=53618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}