..turn-overs are the best way to score.. ..even a center bounce clearance, even a pure one, isn't cos everyone's at least set-up and ought to be close to their direct opponent.. ..with a turnover you catch the opposition all out of position, and with either good long kicking or footspeed, sheer pace in regards to ball movement will cut up the opposition easily..

Teams are now refining where they focus on causing the turnovers to punish the opposition to the max. Just over or around the middle of the field seems to be the spot. Too close to goal is too congested these days to get lots of good opportunities to goal. I reckon that is why our defending of kickouts is pretty loose for the first kick and then we set up for the second kick with the hope of pinching it back and blasting it forward with speed using the space in front of us to construct a goal scoring opportunity.
The swans like to pinch it back way back on the edge if not inside their defensive 50 then go nuts on the rebound.

Exciting stuff ! Very enjoyable.

Funnily enough current trends in footy suit us.

With sides pressing so much nowdays you get heaps of space quite often for runners to exploit that, being well stocked in this area of pacey goalkickers in Army, Betts, Garlett and Yaz.

So how do sides counter it? Going man on man can be done, but often our players will push out of the forward 50 to keep the space behind. If opposition keep numbers back, then they have less men around the ball.

I like how Malthouse is trying his best to work with what he has rather than fitting a game plan which doesn't work on the team.

Though I do think if he had come to this realisation prior to R1 we would be 7-3 or 8-2.

I like how Malthouse is trying his best to work with what he has rather than fitting a game plan which doesn't work on the team.