It's always a treat watching North Melbourne AFLW as they move the ball the best of anyone in the competition every year in my opinion.
The make the ground wide, they make the ground long and they spread the defense which gives them relatively easy and open teammates to kick to which doesn't require huge amounts of individual skill, but it does require high game intelligence and patience.
A lot of teams, not overly confident they can move the ball from 1 end to the other, try and do so by putting speed on on the ball in the wrong area's of the ground or in the wrong situations, resulting in a lot of turnovers which is more method than actual skill.
North Melbourne on the other hand know they have the method, and are patient in waiting for formations and player positioning to develop to present and then find these open teammates.
The wing position has become the most crucial position on the ground in regards to moving the ball from 1 end to the other as it's them, in particular the fat winger, that decides how much ground you're going to be able to access at that time.
Adding to that they determine how connected the rest of the team can stay, and how many players can be used in the current play.
In this video from the weekend against St Kilda, North Melbourne winger Tess Craven (who I called Charlton in the video!), shows perfect wing play by vacating space to create width for her teammates then again vacating space to create length for another teammate.
She simply runs her lane, which is non-existent in a lot of local footy, and after 3 - 4mins of game pay is then able to get her reward for running, getting on the end of an offensive transition play and going very deep inside forward 50.
Although she only had 10 possessions for the game, the ability to make and keep the ground big is exactly what North Melbourne want to do so to make this quantifiable for local footy where the amount of possessions is still how game impact is judged, how many times your team can go fat side corridor without going to your fat winger might something you can use.
If your team can go fat corridor but not to the winger then that probably means that they have successfully created the width (spreading from contest midfielders) and length (run from behind defenders/hit up forwards) for others.
This cannot happen if the winger just sits them selves 20m off the play and doesn't move out of that lane.
If you play on the wing then memorise this video...
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