KEY REACTIONS TO THE AFL’S PROPOSED RULE CHANGES:

* “Our game is choking itself to death. Change is coming. If you don’t like it, resign and go and join the unemployment queue.” – AFL legend Malcolm Blight

* “I don’t like it. I think it will be a blight on the game.” – Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley on starting positions

* “Be careful what you wish for. If you want to see more goals, we’re going to see more blowouts.” – Richmond coach Damien Hardwick

* “For me it’s about bringing back the magic. I feel like I’m turning more games off … it’s not providing that excitement that it used to.” – Melbourne co-captain Nathan Jones

* “It needs to be changed now … we need to bump (TV) audiences up now.” – Geelong star Patrick Dangerfield

* “We’re certainly discussing it, whether that’s appropriate … the emerging view is that it is.” – AFL chief Gillon McLachlan on changes being trialled at AFL level

* “That would worry me … going out to play an exhibition game.” – St Kilda coach Alan Richardson

* “If it got to the stage that a trial was proposed for one of our games in 2018, Fremantle’s position is that we would not support that occurring.” – Dockers chief executive Steve Rosich

“It seems demeaning to me … when I played myself and coached my players, every game was like a grand final.” – AFL legend Leigh Matthews

* “(Fans) should take a level of calmness away … we’re not looking to drop things into the game that are going to upset the rhythm of the game.” – AFL football operations manager Steve Hocking