Backline Notes

• MAN ON MAN

• PUNCH DEFENSIVELY FROM BEHIND

• Under pressure clear the ball long and defensively

• Have touch on your opponent take him to the ball

• NO U TURNS-Don’t bring the ball back into the corridor go down the lines

• Always push your opponent out to boundary line you take guard of the corridor

• No ball watching – CONCENTRATE

Midfield

• Lead your opponent to the ball

• Once you have dispose of the ball push back hard onto your opponent

• Man your opponent up in their forward line

• Build the wall in forward line

• Don’t go kick chasing be accountable

• Man up in centre bounces if opposition are winning the clearances

• Fill the defensive corridor in back line

Forwards

• PLAY IN FRONT ITS IMPERATIVE!

• LEAD YOUR OPPONENT TO THE BALL

• When kicking for goal, be balance don’t try and kick too hard just kick through the ball

• If cant mark bring the ball to ground for rovers – who will be front and centre

• FORWARD LINE PRESSURE run, chase, harass and lock the ball in

• MAN UP when they have the ball be prepared to run

• No ball watching – CONCENTRATE

• Keep the forward line OPEN