A player can be subbed post game if they are an eligible player and they experience a qualifying event. A qualifying event is:
- A mid-game injury where injury prevented them from playing more than 3 quarters in he game
- or
- They did not play in the game despite being eligible.
Eligibility
The “traditional AFL team lists” are those where the majority of AFL teams are released on a Thursday night.
Where the traditional AFL Thursday night team lists are released, to be eligible for post game substitutions, the player must be named in that official AFL team list.
Where the traditional AFL Thursday night team lists are either not released, or they are released but a player plays in an AFL team whose list was not released on those Thursday night team lists (e.g. a Monday game), to be eligible for post game substitutions, the player must have not played and been named in good faith**.
**A good faith naming is defined as any player who an HFFL coach could reasonably expect to play because they fulfil criteria 4 plus any of criteria 1-3 below:
- They played last week OR
- They did not play last week but would usually be expected to play in that AFL club’s best 22 and the HFFL coach can produce reasonable evidence they have overcome the problem that kept them out of the game last week (e.g. listed as a “test” on an injury list, or returned from suspension OR
- They are formally named in an official AFL team list for that round
AND
4) The coach has not been formally notified by another coach by a reasonable time, of reasonable evidence that the playerwill notbe playing this week:
Key Definitions:
Examples of such reasonable evidence include:
- That they are not named in the official AFL team list (the version that is first released for that team for that round).
- A reputable media article ruling the player out. This may have been released before the official AFL team lists.
A reasonable time is defined as no more than 6 hours after the official AFL team list is released (when it is first released for that team for that round)
Formal notification is defined as “direct person to person WhatsApp messaging” (i.e. not group messaging).