The AFL will be considering adding ducking as a free kick for holding the ball, as well as helping to improve ruck contests throughout the ground.
Yesterday, it was announced by the AFL that there will be five on the interchange bench and the ball will be thrown up instead of bounced in the centre.
AFL general manager Greg Swann has said that players ducking for free kicks may be considered holding the ball under a new interpretation of holding the ball, as well as fixing players not disposing the ball properly.
"We're looking at the ducking and that being deemed to be prior opportunity, so that we discourage it and you don't get as many frees for doing it," Swann said on Triple M's Rush Hour.
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"Holding the ball [free kicks] are probably the hardest thing [to officiate] in the game, to be honest."
"The prior opportunity, as you say, one arm and then you fall on the ground, and if you have a bit of a swing of the leg at it at the moment, we deem that as you know, attempts and things like that. So we're having a look at that one that's not as easy to clean up."
Swann said that the removal of the bounce is one thing that should improve the spectacle of ruck contests, allowing more ruckman to jump at the ball.
"So I was again on the record as saying about four years ago, 4 out of five of the ruck contests in the centre of the ground that players jumped at each other. Now it's four out of five; they walk across the line and wrestle, and we don't like it," Swann said.
"We're looking now, we're just working with the umpires about how we can avoid that. We think throwing the ball up will help as well, but we'd like to see the ruckman jumping."
There is currently a commission meeting scheduled for October that will see any changes to the laws of the game announced after that.