I first noticed full-team lane running by the Sydney Swans back in 2021 when our offense first starting exploding but there's still only them and Collingwood who use it regularly and it is a staple of launching from half back for both teams.
In the women's game, Melbourne and North Melbourne have jumped on board as of last season, but Melbourne more regularly.
What lane running is in a nutshell is a sort of hashtag # formation that is similar to a zone defense when out of possession, and remains the same once you regain possession except you compress it on defense, and expand it on offense.
To get more specific you, roll your half forwards up nice and high to give you the first line of the hashtag or the first player in each lane going horizontally across the ground, however-many that is which changes depending on the game situation.
Then the midfielders and half backs fall in behind those leading players as you move the ball up the ground.
I must add that this works best during a medium to fast play moment as gaps open up while defense scatters to cover all the free players that we developed, and when played with high game intelligence, there will be multiple options for outnumber advantage situations as well.
It really means that you can go fast as you've got support players in front, with and behind you, so it doesn't need to be pretty and clean ball movement, it just needs to be forward ball movement for the most part.
From here we detail lane running during various game moments:
- Off Offensive Transition
- Off Defensive Transition
- Off a Kick Out
- Off a defensive 5o intercept mark
- Off a defensive ball up
- Off a mid 50 ball up
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