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i have been trying to get my head around the singular ease with which teams manage to score against us in the second halves of games. 8 goals to 1 v Port. 15 goals to 1 v Essendon. 17 goals to 4 v WCE. dont get me wrong our first halves have been plenty ordinary as well often enough, but the cakewalk of goals in the second halves all 3 games has been staggering - no more so than the 11 third quarter goals kicked by WCE. i'm not having a go at mark neeld and 'hardest team to play against', but i have honestly never seen a side scored against so easily as us in the first three games.

there are always those buzz words that come and go in footy circles - two that seem to have disappeared recently are 'flooding' and 'tempo footy'. you have to get your hands on the footy to do the latter, but i wondered what other posters think of the former - flooding - in the face of the onslaughts we seem periodically to cop. i have a baby so maybe havent seen us play enough (that aint the only reason i'm avoiding it), but are we trying to flood? i assume not - so is this something we should be doing in controlled bursts?

i know that flooding is not ideal from a game-plan perspective, and is said to hurt the confidence of players. having said that, getting slammed by 15 goals doesnt seem to be doing us too many favours...

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We are missing Jordie as our main tagger, but we should try some sort of flood against the top teams.

I would go for more attacking game plan against the teams mid to low on the ladder, and super defensive against top eight sides

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I don't think flooding would necessarily help. Our guys more, than any I've ever seen, just guard grass. I reckon any decent team would be able to just pinpoint their players amongst the sea of flat-footed Melbourne players.

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I think the lack of high quality, experienced leaders is a big part of this.

That and a lack of general defensive mindset. Our heads drop so quickly and we become reactive too easily.

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