But season 2020 is like no other.

The AFL opted to shorten game time when faced with the possibility of a coronavirus-impacted season.

The reasoning behind 16-minute quarters plus time on was the belief clubs would potentially play two games a week to help squeeze fixtures in.

It's an ever-changing landscape and now, after round two and with the belief teams will play one game a week from here on out, it's time to revert to traditional 20-minute quarters plus time on from round three.

Or, if clubs needs time to re-calibrate, re-introduce the longer format after this four-week block and a new round of fixtures is announced.

Fans, for the most part, oppose rule changes to our great game.

Even more so when they're introduced hastily.

But, in unprecedented times, this one might be applauded.

Play remaining rounds in the game's truest format.

The AFL has already confirmed it will revert to its usual game time in 2021.

At the moment we're being denied almost a quarter of play each match.

Plus five less rounds (a 17-game season down on the traditional 22).

Thursday night's season relaunch between Richmond and Collingwood went just 94 minutes.

Granted, it was a slog with just 10 goals kicked collectively.

Games with more goals kicked went closer to the distance - the GWS-North Melbourne clash (20 goals) went for 110.51 and the Brisbane-Fremantle battle was a close second with 110.21 (22 goals).

Essendon coach John Worsfold told Fox Footy he would support a decision to revert to traditional game time this season.

"The quarters are fairly short," he said.

"I probably would (revert this year) because that is how the game has always looked to us."

Brisbane counterpart Chris Fagan said he too was a traditionalist.

"I like the older length of game, that's certainly what we train for," he told Fox Footy.

Integrity and issues surrounding percentage might make a change in 2020 a pipe dream. But maybe as a consolation we can ditch the 60-second gap between goals?

"The thing you really do notice in the games at the moment is just how long there is between a goal being scored and the centre bounce," Fagan said.

"You seem to wait for a long time and it's about another 15 seconds.

"We had 20 centre bounces so that adds up to another seven minutes, so that is accounting for a fair bit of it (our longer match)."

It's momentum-sapping. For both the players and those of us watching at home, particularly when a game is going down-to-the-wire as four of the nine matches did in round two.

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