Two days on from the Australian Open and order has been restored in the sports media landscape, with footy now dominating the headlines.

Usually, sports editors and news producers storm into the office on the Tuesday after the Open (having given the troops an extra day for a tennis post mortem) with a demand to work the phones and chase footy stories.

But today (Tuesday) the AFL has given those on the footy beat something of a free kick with the release of the tribunal recommendations for the new season, which can be found here.

There's all sorts of modifications and enhancements, but the focus, naturally, is on the introduction of fines for players who have found to be staging for free kicks. And fair enough, too.

On its website, the AFL has isolated four incidents that should they happen this year, would see the players concerned cited for staging. The players concerned are Steven Milne, Kane Cornes, Lance Franklin and Alan Didak.

Because it's the official AFL website, is it officially OK for the aforementioned quartet to be known as stagers?

But you have to love the court of public opinion, in this case the Herald Sun's Superfooty website, whose users have nominated their own list of players who they believe could be significantly out of pocket this year once the crackdown on staging begins in earnest.

Those in the gun, according to the website are Joel Selwood, Brad Johnson, Marc Murphy, Gary Ablett, Nick Riewoldt and Brent Harvey. It's an all-star list, yet according to those in the footy fandom, all are guilty of staging for frees.

Most venom is saved, however, for just-retired Essendon spearhead Matthew Lloyd. Among the postings directed towards Lloyd are:

"So Matthew Lloyd must have got the heads up that this new offence is coming in. Only reason he would have retired!" (The Douth of Edithvale)

"Lucky that Knights made Lloyd retire. He would be facing the tribunal every week." (Michael of Brisbane)

"Lucky Lloyd retired, otherwise he'd be broke....." (Pete)

And so on and so forth.

It has been a good day for the punters and the talking heads. Outing potential AFL divers makes for better copy and better talkback than who has the best slice backhand.