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The Carlton interchange bench in a match against St Kilda, 2011. Interchange (or, colloquially, the bench or interchange bench) is a team position in Australian rules football, consisting of players who are part of the selected team but are not currently on the field of play.
Interchange bench: the designated area of the ground where players wait to be allowed onto the field after another player has left, i.e. one player is interchanged for another. [3] Interchange gate: a 20-metre zone marked on the boundary line through which players being interchanged must run. In the back: see push in the back.
There are 18 positions in Australian rules football, not including four (sometimes 6–8) interchange players who may replace another player on the ground at any time during play. The fluid nature of the modern game means the positions in football are not as formally defined as in sports such as rugby or American football .
Officially launched as The National Today Show, [1] Today is Australia's longest running morning breakfast news program. [2] The show premiered on 28 June 1982. The original hosts, Steve Liebmann and Sue Kellaway , spent four years together before Liebmann left to present the evening news for Network Ten in Sydney.
His inclusion resulted in Luke Garner moving to the interchange bench and Matt Eisenhuth being dropped to reserve. Melbourne Storm forward Nelson Asofa-Solomona was handed a five-match suspension by the NRL Judiciary following the preliminary final, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] meaning the Storm brought in Lazarus Vaalepu for just his seventh NRL appearance.
In Round 14, he came off the interchange bench for the first time in his first-grade career where he was able to come on the field as an impact player. Walker finished the season playing 20 games for Manly, and scoring 5 tries. Walker played at centre in the club's preliminary final loss against South Sydney. [47]
Commencing in the 2016 season, Australia's National Rugby League permits up to eight interchanges per team per game. Additionally, if a player is injured due to foul play and an opposition player has been sin-binned or sent off then the injured player's team is given a free interchange. [13]
On 15 October, Boyd made his international debut for Australia against New Zealand, where he started at prop in the 26-6 win at nib Stadium in Perth. [19] Boyd played in 4 matches of the tournament including playing off the interchange bench in the Kangaroos 34-8 Final win against New Zealand at Anfield .