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Australian Football League To Overhaul Laws Of The Games Committee

05 / 17 / 13

The Australian Football League "has proposed an overhaul of the Laws of the Games Committee," with the league's new football operations Manager Mark Evans "having detected club disenchantment with the rules process," according to Caroline Wilson of THE AGE. Club CEOs departed Thursday's CEOs meeting...

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Tags: Leagues and Governing Bodies, Australia

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