on them where you can pretty much put your hand flat and the ball will just stop on the glove. ''It might bobble a little bit, but the forward can just grab it then, rather than the ball hitting a bare hand and it skidding off.'' Pratt said the success of players such as Collingwood key forward Travis Cloke, who regularly wears a glove and set a record for contested marks last season, would encourage others to trial gloves in the future. ''If nothing gets done to police the stickiness of gloves, I think everyone will start wearing these gloves, like in the NFL,'' he said. ''If you grow up playing

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