To be quite honest i didn't even know that the AFL had one. but any way. he is not the only senior coach that is calling for the AFL to bring in a heat policy. Nathan Buckley has now chimed in calling for the AFL to consider a heat policy. My thing is that if they are going to play footy towards the end of summer. then sure the AFL must have some sort of guidelines in place. heat exhaustion is one of the last things you want your players going down with considering there is now a bench rotation cap! Your thoughts?To be quite honest i didn't even know that the AFL had one. but any way. he is not the only senior coach that is calling for the AFL to bring in a heat policy. Nathan Buckley has now chimed in calling for the AFL to consider a heat policy. My thing is that if they are going to play footy towards the end of summer. then sure the AFL must have some sort of guidelines in place. heat exhaustion is one of the last things you want your players going down with considering there is now a bench rotation cap! Your thoughts?

They do have one, it's just the implementation they want changed. At the moment, once it hits a certain temp (not sure of the exact number) the matches are shortened and interchange cap lifted, but once one of the 3 games have started they can't change, even if it gets warmer for the later games, as was the case on Sunday. btw it is for pre-season only, nothing happens in the regular season if it does get hot.

Why aren't matches played at night, oh I forgot Fox wouldn't like it!

Because the NAB cup which i call the the trial and error cup, they have 80 cap rotations and cause it summer players are getting dehydrated quicker etc.