we stopped the flood!

[richards42]

Isn't it obvious to all the experts how to stop the flood? We done it on saturday.Just chip it around the backline and make all the forwards who have ran back to crowd the other end come back and man up.
No team will ever let richmond or any other club do what we done on saturday again.They will have re-hearsed this at training this week.
On sen and fox footy all the experts want to change the rules.eg if the ball is kicked backwards it is play on or a kickout must be 30 metres etc.etc
If teams want to flood just stand there and play kick to kick until they man up.
Have we just found a way to beat the flood without a single rule change?
your thoughts?

 

[Nik]

makes you wonder why it hasn't really been done before. It seems simple enough in premise, maybe it's too difficult for some clubs in practice. If that's the case and richmond are pioneers for it, I think that's great. carn the tiges you clever devil's 8)

 

[geoffryprettyboy]

Interesting article on the AFL website by Dennis Pagan, it's worth a read, thanks Dyer're.

 

[Ian4]

it's possible we may have found the answer to the flood richards42, but you have to be in front first for this game plan to work... i just wonder if this was in the pipeline for the sydney game considering we had an even younger side in that game... but they had 4 goals on the board after 6 minutes and it was unworkable...

 

[richards42]

not so sure ian? obviously if it was the last quarter and time was limited you couldn't employ it.
But say half way thru the 3rd quarter 10 points down and every time we went forward the opposition crowded the forward line our smalls couldn't find space and richo was triple teamed, you could go backwards and make them go one on one and then thread a path thru.