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You’re testing me now because he managed to summarise it in a text (it was Edmund, Healy and Hoyne actually discussing it), but this is my interpretation of how Healy broke down the text.


Surge teams play with a +1 at stoppage and they then set the ground up to move the ball through overlap. Whereas the shape teams hold their numbers behind the ball and feed it backwards to create overlap. He then went deeper and mentioned a term they use called “**** surge” which they use at particular times.


The way it was explained was definitely a Vs scenario where some teams play one way and others play another as their go to setup. It was really easy to identify that we’re a surge team based on our stoppage setup even without looking at footage because we rarely look for a +1 to exit the rear of stoppages.


You’re spot on with why those two in particular are in trouble. They spoke about how much the game has gone from contest to movement (in the 10 years prior to 2025 the lowest scoring % from contest in a season was 62% and this year it’s 53%) and went deeper on how big a loss Windsor is to the Dees and why even if Carlton’s contest game improves they’ll still struggle until guys like Boyd and Newman can return. It’s not for everyone, but I love that level of insight.


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