Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
Watching Foxtel the other day, "AFL Round Table Coaches" Rocket said something interesting. If the interchanges keep getting restricted, then teams will revert to chipping the ball around in the backline, so that players can have a rest. This of course can lead to flooding to stop the chipping around. All of a sudden we have so called ugly football. The AFL just doesn't see the consequences of changing rules and what it does to our game.
That is what the mediocre sides may well do. We have one of the best forward press games, so if they want to do that, as we did to quite a few sides last year, we will be pressuring the forward turn overs and creaming the goals.

The better sides will use their superior ball retention skills to methodically move the ball upfield while still controlling the tempo as suits them. I think we can be one of those sides.