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Contest ... Tom Hawkins grapples with Michael Jamison. Source: George Salpigtidis / News Limited
Geelong coach Chris Scott believes it's hurting the AFL's power forwards. Hawthorn defender Brian Lake says it's helping the small forwards and umpires boss Jeff Gieschen thinks it's all in their imagination.
Gieschen insists nothing has changed from previous seasons in the way umpires rule on marking contests.
But Scott, Lake and Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley are among a chorus of players, coaches and fans who beg to differ.
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Where many perceive increasing inconsistency and heavy-handedness, Gieschen says for 10 years there has been a rule disallowing pushing, holding, bumping, blocking or interfering with the arms in marking contests.
He adds umpires aren't being instructed any differently now.
But Scott says if that rule was enforced to the letter, no contact would be legal.
He said interpretation had to be a factor and there had been an unwelcome change in that this year.
"My personal view is that if we've been saying you can't bump, block, push or hold in a marking contest then two of the greatest footballers of all time in Tony Lockett and Jason Dunstall would have been ineffective,'' Scott told reporters on Tuesday.
"It's not a great development in our game.''
Scott said any marking contest involved two players pushing against each other and it was sometimes just the stronger one who was penalised.
"If one is stronger than the other, the push is going to become more obvious,'' he said.
Two incidents this season have fed views of a changing interpretation.
Collingwood's Ben Reid was denied a mark on Anzac Day, with a free kick instead paid to Essendon's Tom Bellchambers for what most observers felt was good body work by the Magpie.
While Gieschen deemed that decision correct, he admitted the wrong call was made on Saturday to penalise Adelaide's Scott Thompson for putting a hand on the shoulder of Hawthorn's David Hale before marking in a crucial last-quarter incident.
Scott felt for umpires, saying even the official explanations of such incidents were extremely confusing.
Buckley, who was clearly infuriated by the Reid decision, was also left none the wiser.
"It doesn't clear it up,'' Buckley said.
"Right now, half a push is okay, but a full push isn't acceptable. I don't know (about) an 80 per cent push, how that's going to be adjudicated.''
Lake, a two-time All Australian with the Western Bulldogs, said in the past he liked to outmark forwards but now looked to spoil more to avoid infringing.
"You've probably got to be a little bit safer on that side of it, which brings in the small forwards,'' Lake told SEN radio.
"As you can see this year the small forwards are kicking bags of goals.
"The ball's probably coming to ground a little bit more because defenders are a bit afraid to take those contested marks.''
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