In a survey conducted by the AFL Players Association and Herald Sun, more than 87 per cent of players voiced their disapproval with a cap being placed on interchange rotations.

With a cap of 120 possibly introduced for 2014 according to the Herald Sun, there is urgency because it could possibly affect football department decisions for next year and beyond.

Not only did the majority of players not agree with a cap, more than 79 percent of responses indicated their preferred interchange was four players and no substitutes, the system that was used prior to the beginning of 2011.

Elsewhere, players’ preferred format for a season is 22 games plus two byes, a format which could be implemented as soon as next year. This happened in 2011, but the last two years have seen teams with just one bye across the middle of the year.

As free agency starts to become more prominent, only three percent of players said they didn’t support the concept, with roughly a 50-50 split on the topic of whether it made the strong clubs stronger and the weak clubs weaker.

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