We're four months into the season and the seven new rules changes are settled in to varying degrees of success.
Shrugging the tackle being deemed to be prior opportunity has been largely welcomed, whereas some of the stand 50m penalties are such weapons-grade bulldust even a FIFA referee in a USA game would question it.
I've realised that one particular rule is actually a slap in the face to Australians, and it must immediately be rectified. The last disposal rule, or as we all call it, ‘lasso'.
The "lasso" gesture was invented for the second season of AFLW, as previously umpires had been doing the deliberate out of bounds gesture for last disposal which confused players and fans.
Lasso might be the only rule we nicknamed due to the umpire's gesture. If we went down this path, out of bounds on the full would be called "the aeroplane", too far without bouncing "drunk auntie dancing" and holding the man would be called "love handles".
But the fact that in Australia's indigenous game, we call a ball being brought back into play a "lasso", a term usually associated with American cowboys, rather than the obvious – the boomerang – is insulting to all of us.
The ball goes out of bounds, it comes straight back. Just like the indigenous throwing weapon. This is Australia. So call it "The Boomerang".
This will happen by grass roots so I implore all of you reading this to start casually calling it the boomerang and slowly the rest of society will realise their error.
Once we rectify this issue, then let's get onto stopping the Americanised trend of saying a team "Got the W" rather than "They won".
This is beyond stupid, "Got the W" is five syllables, "they won" is two.
But baby steps. Boomerang first.
