RICHMOND football manager Greg Miller says the Tigers will work with the league in coming days to try and come up with a better solution for the AFL’s new interchange system.

The AFL tried out new interchange rules at the weekend but the feedback wasn’t all good, with the Tigers among the most critical.

The new system will officially kick in this week when umpires – alerted to breaches via interchange stewards – will be able to penalise teams who infringe upon the new laws.

Several sides took their time coming to grips with the more methodical system at the weekend, which involves sides writing down each interchange made with a club and AFL steward verifying each swap made on the bench.

“It wasn’t good,” Miller told SEN radio.

“[But] we can’t just criticise without having some suggestions and that’s something that we’ll do today and I think a few clubs will do the same.”

While the AFL pointed out on Monday that the paper-based system for notifying the interchange steward of any changes had in fact been in place since last season, Miller said that in today’s modern age “there’s got to be a better way” to deal with the interchanges than the new measures.

“We’re using technology all over the place, and here we have little bits of paper and everything to help hold players back … by the jumpers so they don’t go on the ground until the paperwork’s completed”

“I think that common sense will prevail here and we’ll have to have a chance to talk to the AFL about it.”

Miller believes the Tigers and weekend opponent Geelong made several slip-ups on Saturday and says something needs to be done to remedy what could develop into a messy situation in coming weeks.

“The guy who does our work down there [on the bench], Johnny Vickery, he was screaming at the players and I think in the first half I think both clubs would have infringed a few times,” Miller said.

AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson believes the weekend trial was a success and that that if clubs continued to adapt to the changes there would be no infringements.

But Miller wasn’t so sure.

“Well, for that to happen each club’s going to have to employ another person as a sort of a gatekeeper to stand there and hold the player back,” Miller said.

“Having to wait for paperwork to be handed in and to stand behind a fading yellow line in the rain was a difficult exercise.”