My senior team from 2019 built it's entire game plan off of our defense and it paid dividends, playing off in and winning the Grand Final.
At low to mid levels of football a rock solid team defence will be near impossible for opposing teams to play against because of the lower grade of skill and tactical awareness of the players at those levels (that's why we play there!)
Building a rock solid defense, or a version of Clarko's Cluster doesn't require players of great skill or ability, although we had 2 super intercept markers, which then means you can kick start your offence off of the opposition's turnover right away.
As a coach you're job is to describe, lay out and teach the intricacies of whatever team/zone/cluster defense you decide to roll with, assuming that no player knows anything at all about setting up and playing cluster defense to start with.
This doesn't mean that you'll then need to raise every minor aspect of cluster defense but rather it then forces you to be clear, concise and to pretty much teach principles over specific player movements.
Below I will map out a nice training drill that I have modified off a soccer drill to help your players/team understand the concepts of team defence, being isolation, termination, dispossession, and positioning yourself respectively to force turnovers.
To set the drill up...
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