AFL players will remain free to talk to their families about games they will be playing in, according to league boss Andrew Demetriou.

However, Demetriou said the information could not be used to place bets on matches.

The betting furore involving Collingwood's Heath Shaw and captain Nick Maxwell surfaced again after North Melbourne president James Brayshaw asked why Magpie Tyson Goldsack had not been penalised for an earlier incident.

Shaw was suspended for eight matches for placing a bet on Maxwell to kick the first goal of the round-nine clash against Adelaide when he knew the regular defender was starting in the forward line.

Maxwell was fined for passing on information to family members who proceeded to use it to bet on the game.

Goldsack had joked with his family he might kick the first goal in last year's grand final replay and his mother placed a successful bet on him.

However Demetriou dismissed the suggestion that Goldsack had given his family any 'inside information', saying his situation was completely different to that of Shaw and Maxwell.

"In relation to the nonsense that's been pedalled about Tyson Goldsack - he didn't tell his mother that he was playing on the bench," Demetriou said.

"She just bet on her son because he was her son - and several of his mates bet on him to win the Norm Smith Medal.

"This sort of correlation between the two is just nonsense and I do think people have to get educated on these sorts of things because some of the commentary is really disconcerting because it doesn't make any sense."

Demetriou said the league would not try to censor players discussing upcoming games, describing recent comments as "absolutely absurd".

"Of course you can talk to your partners and your families. It's just that the partners and the family can't use that information to go and bet on football," he said.

Demetriou also said it was unlikely teams would have to lodge the positions of players along with their final team sheets 90 minutes before a game.

"I think Adrian Anderson and the integrity team have put enough measures in place and will continue to look at other measures to make sure we protect the integrity of the game," he said.

"We've got a very sophisticated data base, a very sophisticated means of policing the game.

"What the recent Heath Shaw and Nick Maxwell situation has done is help raise awareness yet again that if you're going to do these sorts of things, you will be caught."

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