The QAFL will have an expanded interchange bench in 2010.
Competition boss Martin King outlined to the member clubs yesterday how teams would be able to select 23 players for a game, one more than has been tradition.
The QAFL will have an expanded interchange bench in 2010.
Competition boss Martin King outlined to the member clubs yesterday how teams would be able to select 23 players for a game, one more than has been tradition.
The catch is that one player must come from a club’s supplementary list rather than their senior list.
What it essentially means is that a young player will be given an opportunity to sample senior football every week.
It is yet another way that the QAFL advances as a quality feeder system to the AFL.
The innovation sits well with Redland Bombers coach Matty Francis, who adopted a similar philosophy last year of his own volition.
“We always had the development policy where one of our four bench players would be a very young guy who would get 5-6 games in that position,” Francis said.
“It really helped the kids to develop, so the new rule helps us enormously because we were doing it anyway
