{"id":45942,"date":"2021-03-17T10:34:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T11:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=45942"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:06:29","slug":"legends-hit-out-at-afls-medical-sub-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=45942","title":{"rendered":"Legends hit out at AFL's medical sub introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essendon great Matthew Lloyd<\/a> says the AFL has opened a "massive can of worms" with the introduction of its new medical substitution rule<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The rule has split opinions less than 48 hours out from the season-opener between Richmond and Carlton, with teams now able to take a game-day squad of 23 players in.<\/p>\n

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While the substitute was initially thought to be only for players who are concussed, the fact that a player with any injury can be subbed off has left Lloyd as confused as many.<\/p>\n

"You know if you're concussed, you can't play for 12 days, so I can live with that one, but to then bring it into a medical injury, I just think it opens up a massive can of worms," he told Nine's Footy Classified<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"The amount of times I've been corked, injured or had AC joints where I couldn't finish a game, but I was going to be right the next week, now suddenly a fresh player is going to come on for me that specific day, but then I'd be right to play the next day."<\/p>\n

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According to the new rule, for a substitute player to be eligible to take the field, the club doctor must decide that the player being subbed off will be unavailable to play a game in the following 12 days.<\/p>\n

Ex-Fremantle and St Kilda coach Ross Lyon also echoed Lloyd's statements, saying the new rule opened up an unnecessary "grey area".<\/p>\n

"There's ambiguity and it could come unstuck under pressure," he said.<\/p>\n

"There's enormous pressure on the club doctors and they're under enough pressure as it is. <\/p>\n

"I'd make it five (interchange players), deal with whatever comes on game day, five players will get you through. <\/p>\n

"That has been proven over a long period of time. That gets out of any pressure situations." <\/p>\n

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