We've all seen GWS and how they get their extremely-speedy small forwards up the ground then slingshot back with leg speed and handball before kicking deep to Jesse Hogan with the most assured hands in the league.
This isn't a complicated tactic by any stretch and you don't really necessarily need the leg speed to carry this out, although it sure does help!
This could be an extremely effective tactic to use in local/amateur football where 90% of teams simply try and kick their way out of trouble, opting for territory over possession, thus they set up to defend that way as well, even if it's not on purpose but it's all they've known.
This provides opportunity and that opportunity is to utilise the space available through the middle of the ground if they opt to defend the deep kick above all else.
In the end you'll simply run the ball up ground and kick over their heads, or you'll eventually draw them up as they try and counter the handball chain, and you Joe the goose out the back.
Alternatively you'll also force them into a decision to equal the numbers at the contest which again will create more space for you to handball chain/run the ball through.
On your end though you've got to be all-in on the plan and that's to handball out of congestion until you get out of it and then, continue that handball chain or taking grass with the ball in hand.
4 out of your forwards are essentially out of position so if you do dump kick out of there, and the opposition hang back on defense, it's going straight back over your head. Instead you need to challenge these defenders and put them in a complicated decision-making loop that results in confusion and a temporary "frozen" as they now need to adjust their processing and decision making on something new.
The video is quick and brief...
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