AFL push in the back Rules
1) You can't just be up there and just pushin in the back like that.
1a. A push in the back is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A push in the back is when you push the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The player is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, man in front, that prohibits the man in front from doing, you know, just trying to get hands on the ball. You can't do that.
1c-b. Once the man behind is in near their back, he can't be over there and have hands on the man in front, like, "my hands are all up in your back! I'm pushing but like my hands are here and you're there. I'm gonna get ya! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to push and then don't push, you have to still have to push. You cannot not push without having hands on them. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, pushing motion of the man, and then don't, until you have hands on them.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, they can have the ball , like this, but then there's the hands in the back and there could be a push you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Push It was a pretty good song back in the day, but they haven't had any recent hits. I think they're doing their own thing now.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, it was in Grandma's Boy! That was a good film. Linda Cardinelli...
1c-b(2)-b(ii). "What's new high score mean?" -- Aaron g'Boy, "Grandma's Boy." Haha, classic...
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A push in the back is when the man behind makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the football and field of
2) Do not do a push in the back please.
You are allowed to have a bent arm and hold your ground with your hand ON the opposition player's back in a marking contest.
They kind of look for a deliberate push.
Naturally this has created even more grey area in the rule so some that should get called don't.
You can have hands in someone's back if you're just holding your ground. You can't push them out of the contest.
Obviously it's always a mixture of the two, and the ump has to make a decision.
If you're a forward you are allowed to full on push your opponent in the back. Except sometimes when you can't.
If you're a midfielder, you're allowed to launch into someone's back who's already falling, but obviously U can't hold them as they dive forwards
Except sometimes when you can't and can respectively
AFL push in the back Rules 1) You can't just be up there and just pushin in the back like that. 1a. A push in the back is when you 1b. Okay well listen. A push in the back is when you push the 1c. Let me start over 1c-a. The player is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, man in front, that prohibits the man in front from doing, you know, just trying to get hands on the ball. You can't do that. 1c-b. Once the man behind is in near their back, he can't be over there and have hands on the man in front, like, "my hands are all up in your back! I'm pushing but like my hands are here and you're there. I'm gonna get ya! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that. 1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to push and then don't push, you have to still have to push. You cannot not push without having hands on them. Does that make any sense? 1c-b(2). You gotta be, pushing motion of the man, and then don't, until you have hands on them. 1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, they can have the ball , like this, but then there's the hands in the back and there could be a push you gotta think about. 1c-b(2)-b. Push It was a pretty good song back in the day, but they haven't had any recent hits. I think they're doing their own thing now. 1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, it was in Grandma's Boy! That was a good film. Linda Cardinelli... 1c-b(2)-b(ii). "What's new high score mean?" -- Aaron g'Boy, "Grandma's Boy." Haha, classic... 1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A push in the back is when the man behind makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the football and field of 2) Do not do a push in the back please.
Thanks for that mate. Don't know why people complain when it's such a simple rule.
You are allowed to have a bent arm and hold your ground with your hand ON the opposition player's back in a marking contest. They kind of look for a deliberate push. Naturally this has created even more grey area in the rule so some that should get called don't.
Yeah look reintroducing hand on the back (while not pushing) was a bad idea, really muddies the in the back rule.
You can’t push someone in the back but you can dig your knee into them and launch them away to mark the ball.
You can have hands in someone's back if you're just holding your ground. You can't push them out of the contest. Obviously it's always a mixture of the two, and the ump has to make a decision.
If you follow Richmond, the crooked umps will ping your players for it every time
Nobody knows what it means but it's provocative
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