MELBOURNE FIELD SCANNING
MY TAKE
Scanning is a very trainable but underrated part of the game - you can't react or play to what you don't see - and it's the ability scan, take in and process lots of relevant information quickly that seperates the elites from the regulars.
In this case theMelbourne player gets the ball and scans down field immediately.
With plenty of game intelligence garnered from experience and being exposed to an infinte amount of scenarios, of which most AFLW are still on their way to attaining, this player should have known where the ball just came from downfield, and thus must also know that she probably needs to scan off the line and change the angle of the next kick if she wants to find an open player.
Before she can even decide on this option though she must look, or scan, that area of the field to see if there is indeed an open player and then her decision making process starts in regards to does she think she can get the ball to them and if so, then how is the best way to do that.
By looking downfield first she uses up whatever time she had to look in the more dangerous parts of the ground (45 degrees/lateral) and only after not finding anything downfield she tries a very low % kick across the face of the goal to a 2v1 disadvantage that might have been there 3secs ago, but certaintly not now.
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