Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge has taken another dig at the new restrictions placed on runners this season, saying he wouldn’t mind coaching his local team St Bede's/Mentone again as he would be able to do his job properly at amateur level.

This season, runners will only be allowed to deliver messages to players after a goal is kicked in a bid to declutter the playing field – an initiative that the 2016 premiership coach described as useless as it deprived coaches of “spontaneity”.

Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge is not happy with the new rules around runners. Credit:AAP

A day after his former mentor Alastair Clarkson bemoaned a lack of clarity around the runner rule, Beveridge believes “alarm bells are ringing” and the pressure on the AFL will become so great by the end of the year that the new restrictions will be scrapped eventually.

“I think that en masse the pressure will just mount and it will have to change,” Beveridge told SEN on Tuesday.