Time for the AFL to emerge from its hermit kingdom and send players off - Sydney Morning Herald

The world will not end if the AFL instigates a send-off rule. But the world may end, sooner than anyone thinks, if it does not.

Its worth looking at how the send-off rule has evolved in the rugby codes. In olden times, when violent and dirty play was both planned and relished, send-offs were reserved for the brutal excesses o… [+4294 chars]

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