Just like round one, each quarter will be 16 minutes plus time-on. Get your footy fix on KAYO ahead of live matches returning soon. I believe sides will still play the same way, yeah they might start faster, but they’re going to control the ball like they do in any other game in the back end of a quarter.

Before the opening round back in March, the league cut quarters down to 16 minutes plus time on, in an effort to add the ability to compress the fixture if required due to the coronavirus pandemic. This in effect changes the average AFL match length from 120 minutes to 100 minutes.

How often have we spoken about that in footy?”.Lewis replied: “I think you’ll still get that, because you’ll understand the time.“I quite like it (16 minute quarters). Hawthorn champion Don Scott has slammed the push for shorter quarters in the AFL, labelling the modern-day game “an absolute joke”. Although the AFL has left the door open for hubs to continue in 2021, a late March season-opener and an increase in minutes-per-quarter will be a welcome return to normalcy for many after a season of extraordinary change.Speaking to reporters on Thursday, McLachlan was also hopeful some fans would be able to return to games in Victoria.“What I’ve learnt this year is to not get ahead of ourselves and to be putting asterisks on things, and I think that’s stood us in good stead,” he said.“Victorians I know are missing their football and clubs and players are missing being there, and we need to be playing footy on the MCG.“I’m confident it will be round one, but things can happen before then.”.Despite some reports swirling that the AFL was considering shorter quarters and up to a 28-round season, McLachlan said the start date and format of the 2021 campaign is shaping up to be more traditional than that.“We’re planning on starting on time,” McLachlan said.“We haven‘t 100 per cent locked that in but we’ve had meetings on that and our broad connotation is we start last week of March like we always have, 22-round season.“Then there’s all the other variables and all the other things that we don’t know now.“Broadly planning, clubs will need to know about training and fixturing in the coming weeks and as of today we broadly have consensus that we‘ll be planning to start our season next year as it’s been historically with all of the normal caveats.”.Still, McLachlan has left the door ajar for quarter-lengths not to revert back to 20 minutes, while still stating 16-minute terms are likely to be thrown out.“For next year, I don’t think we’ll be at 16 (minutes), we’ll be at something more,” McLachlan said.“There‘s the probability of 20 but it gives us the opportunity to have a look at.

That’s got to be a positive,” King said.“We’ve got to adjust if that’s what young people want.”.A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites.

This year, the AFL has shortened quarters from the traditional 20 minutes plus time on to 16 minutes plus time on in an effort to ensure the league can get a … The new rule will be in place for the remainder of 2020 plus finals, but is expected to revert back to normal in 2021.

Before the season, the unique circumstances of the pandemic forced the AFL to shorten quarters from 20 minutes with time on to 16 minutes with time on. Quarters have been cut from the traditional 20 minutes plus time on to 16 minutes plus time on this season, in an effort to ensure the AFL can get a full season in during the coronavirus pandemic.This in effect changes the average AFL match length from 120 minutes to 100 minutes.To try and figure out how much difference this would have made historically, North Melbourne champion and Fox Footy analyst David King looked back on the last 10 years of finals. They might just not have to do it for longer.“You can suck 10 minutes out of the clock, no worries, if you want to control the ball, more stoppages.

He removed all scoring recorded in red time - after the 25-minute mark of each quarter.It’s a study even he admits is “simplistic”, but it found the results of eight finals between 2010 and 2019 would have changed.Those include the 2010 drawn Grand Final between Collingwood and St Kilda, the 2018 Grand Final between Collingwood and West Coast, and the 2016 Preliminary Final between the Western Bulldogs and GWS Giants.If red time scoring is removed, the winners of those matches would’ve been St Kilda, Collingwood and GWS respectively, changing the fates of three premierships.2010 Elimination Final - SYD 5.3 (33) to CAR 2.5 (19) in red-time - Blues win instead of lose,2010 Semi Final - WB 3.2 (20) to SYD 1.1 (7) in red-time - Swans win instead of lose,2010 Grand Final - COL 2.3 (15) to STK 2.2 (14) in red-time - Saints win instead of draw,2016 Preliminary Final - WB 4.3 (27) to GWS 1.4 (10) in red-time - Giants win instead of lose,2018 Grand Final - WC 4.2 (26) to COL 0.1 (1) in red-time - Magpies win instead of lose,2019 Semi Final - GWS 2.2 (14) to BL 1.2 (8) in red-time - Lions win instead of lose,After King revealed the results of his research, Hawthorn premiership star Jordan Lewis and,“I don’t want fast food footy,” Robinson said on,“I want grind, and fight, and if you can get two goals just before halftime, it changes the momentum.