How is AFL footy played these days?

these days they do indeed use zones, and not just in the forward 50s, they will use zones to prevent the ball entering the midfield when they use the zone on the kick in (after a behind or out on the full clanger) the zones make it so the ball carrier will be encouraged to run the ball and do those shorter hand to make the ball go from 1 end of the ground to the other believe it or not faster than the kicking days, most teams u will probably notice mount their attack from the half back line, then with a series of short kicks and hand pes it will be down the other end, faster than it ever was. I honestly perfer it this way, i love seeing the tackles, and who can break them