Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley feels that AFL clubs are lost on the issue of prohibited contact and accepts some of the blame for them being in the wilderness.
Controversial free kicks paid against Power ruckman Scott Lycett and Hawthorn defender James Sicily highlighted an umpiring crackdown during round two.
Hinkley and North Melbourne coach Brad Scott have called for clarity from the AFL around what prohibited contact means.
The crackdown is no surprise, especially after Port's physical tactics against Melbourne ruckman Max Gawn in their upset round-one win.
"We're a little confused, I think we're a little lost," Hinkley told AFL360.
"Maybe we had a fair bit to do with the adjustments, (with) the Scott Lycett, Paddy Ryder on Max Gawn scenario.
"It's just a little bit too far.
"If you look at a couple of incidents from the weekend, you would ask more questions about what's being paid and what shouldn't be paid."
The AFL umpiring department is understood to have backed the free paid against Sicily.
But Hinkley said he thought the Lycett free was for an incident elsewhere on the ground, not for anything the ruckman did.
"Scotty didn't really do too much wrong," Hinkley said.
"That's not the game I'd like to watch and certainly not the game the players would like to play."
Scott, a member of the AFL competition committee, expects more clarity from the league this week on the prohibited contact issue.
He expects the issue to settle down after this weekend.
"The message is the key and clarity is required," Scott said.
"Any football-loving person would look at those (two incidents) and think 'they're not free kicks - that's not AFL footy the way it should be played'."
