The circus surrounding the supposedly controversial goalkicking countdown clock has continued, with the AFL confirming there will be two major changes to its implementation.

In a kneejerk response to North Melbourne's Mason Wood intelligently, and rightfully, using his full allotment of 30 seconds for a set shot in the dying stages of the Kangaroos' seven-point win over St Kilda in round seven, AFL football operations manager Mark Evans has announced the shot clock will not be shown on the scoreboard in the final two minutes of each quarter from now on.

Evans also told SEN that umpires would be given the ability to hurry up players who are deemed to be deliberately running down the shot clock, even though it is their right to do so.

Despite the fact that players have historically received information from their runners regarding how much playing time there is left in a quarter, and that the new measures will now effectively allow players to know when there is less than two minutes left in each quarter, Evans hopes the rule changes will "clean up most things".