I've posted numerous clips of players/teams pressing in defensively from the front of the ball carrier/receiver, something Collingwood used to great effect to win the men's premiership this past season.
In AFLW, Geelong probably do more of it than any other team ans Sydney have introduced it a little bit this season as well but this comes from Hawthorn in their very last game of the year.
The point of pressing up hard defensively is to disrupt the forward handball game of the opposition and in doing so, hopefully turning the ball over as close to your goal as possible, rather then simply run beside them, give them free territory (which I've also highlighted a bunch of times this season) and then if you still manage to get an intercept, it's 50+ meters (1 - 2 kicks in AFLW) further down field then it could, and should have been.
This has to be a team tactic and everyone needs to all-in on it because of 1 player fails to press up, then you can't get the dominoes pressure effect and the opposition will then eventually receive the ball in space but most of your defenders are all now past the ball.
Anyway that's the 2nd clip in this video and it was an unbelievable effort for the Hawks to turn the ball over where they did considering all the time and space the Cats had in the lead up.
The first video, albeit a bit hard to see, shows the Hawks getting a 3v2 outnumber but fail to make it obvious enough for the ball carrier to find with poor spacing and pattern recognition by all 3 Hawks players really.
The Eagles got a bit of a healthy kick from their coaching change and in turn, have played with far more dare and intent in their last 3 games, giving them something to take into 204 that wasn't there before.
In this clip they handball out of congestion and get the ball into open space with supporting numbers, where normally they might get the initial handball out of congestion but then just kick it to clear the area, essentially shifting the pressure from the kicker to someone else up the field, and then that pressures comes right back on them when it comes 5secs later!
In this scenario they clearly try and use a handball chain to move the ball which was some of the best transition football they've shown in recent years but then they just don't commit enough to it for long enough in this instance, and fail to use the extra handball that was there and could have resulted in a ball landing 20m from their goal, but instead they kick it long to a free Adelaide defender only just inside forward 50, so a valuable but very teachable lesson for them right there.
Moving to the Carlton/St Kilda game, we look at the very first center ball up and how the Carlton midfielder just doesn't keep her space off the ruck tap, and not being able to take the ball cleanly off the tap, losing the ball and resulting in a saints inside 50.
Lastly we look at the sheer athleticism of Bre Moody and how if Carlton can really nail how to use all of her gifts at various times, it will make them a far greater proposition on a weekly basis.
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