Interchange (Australian rules football)
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Interchange is the term used to describe a team position in Australian rules football, also often known as "the bench". Players named on the interchange bench are not permitted to enter the field of play unless substituting for a player during the game.
Up to four players can be named on the bench, although this number has steadily increased over the decades from a single player in the 1930s. Representative teams (such as State of Origin teams or honorific teams such as the AFL Team of the Century), practise and exhibition matches often feature an extended interchange bench of up to six or eight players.
Players such as Peter Riccardi are called impact players as they come off the bench, do their thing, then return to the bench.
| Positions on the Australian rules football field | |||
| B: | Back Pocket | Full back | Back Pocket |
| HB: | Half-Back Flank | Centre Half-Back | Half-Back Flank |
| C: | Wing | Centre | Wing |
| HF: | Half-Forward Flank | Centre Half-Forward | Half-Forward Flank |
| F: | Forward Pocket | Full Forward | Forward Pocket |
| Foll: | Ruckman | Ruck rover | Rover |
| Int: | Interchange Bench | Interchange Bench | Interchange Bench |
| Interchange Bench | |||
| Coach: | coach | ||
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