Adelaide's Brent Reilly crashes into the legs of Alwyn Davey, giving away a free kick. Picture: Simon Cross Source: Herald Sun
PLAYERS who instinctively "see ball, get ball" will be hardest hit by the AFL's new low forceful contact rule, according to Hawthorn star Shaun Burgoyne.
Burgoyne says players have no option but to get out on the track and practice so they could adapt to the new rule by staying on their feet and making sure they don't make contact with an opponent if they do go to ground.
"It's something we have got to get used to because it's here to stay because you don't want to see players getting their legs broken," he said at Waverley Park today.
"It's a matter of getting on the training track and practicing it until it sinks in."
Burgoyne supported the crackdown on players sliding into contests - or opponents - feet or knees-first.
But he said extending the rule to penalise any players who make forceful contact below the knees - even when diving after the ball - would be tough to adjust to for players who had been taught to play that way all their lives.
The Hawks defender said he hoped the rule wouldn't take desperate acts where players put their own safety at risk by diving for the ball head-first into a pack out of the game.
"It's going to have an impact especially on those players who play on instinct, who have been taught that way their entire career to get the ball and dive on it,'' Burgoyne said.
"It's just a matter of getting out on the track and training the new technique of keeping your feet - or making sure if you do go to ground, that you don't make contact."
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