BY FRANK IENCO

The West Coast Eagles have been one of the first clubs to approve modifications to the AFL’s controversial interchange laws, saying the changes will make it easier for everyone.

As we reported yesterday, the league will use information from Champion Data to monitor interchanges and clubs will no longer have to log changes in writing.

The Eagles were one the sides adversely affected by the previous system, after they were contentiously penalised for an interchange infringement in last Saturday’s win over Adelaide, prompting the new changes.

West Coast football operations manager Steve Woodhouse says the changes have meade the interchange rule more simple.

“We were perhaps always a little bit concerned that sometimes people get a bit jumpy and want to police things rather heavily,” Woodhouse told the ABC.

“If you break the rule, you break the rule,” he said. ”But the situation is that it’s new for everyone, it’s very different and we just need to make sure we don’t make a mess of it.”

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