Richmond coach Damien Hardwick wants the AFL to introduce team prior opportunity as a way to solve congestion around the ball.
St Kilda will soon become the fourth team to trial proposed rule changes in a scratch match hitout and the AFL's competition committee will meet again on Wednesday.
AFL football operations manager Steve Hocking said last week that the committee will look closely at three or four possible rule changes.
Hardwick is the latest AFL figure to raise team prior opportunity and as the reigning premiership coach, his opinion carries extra weight.
It is a variation on the debate around prior opportunity in the holding the ball rule.
Hardwick said contested possessions have increased because the number of handballs has also gone up.
"I really like the 'team prior'," Hardwick told Channel Seven's Talking Footy.
"The guy who is winning the ball on the ground absolutely deserves every prior opportunity in the rule book.
"But as soon as I handball that ball 30cm to you, your prior's gone. You get rid of the ball.
"Then, all of a sudden, what will happen is ... they won't handball to you, they'll handball to space (and) that also opens up the game."
