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That's how the game is played these days though, First Crack has been highlighting this over recent weeks. Scores from a pure clearance/contested ball style gameplan have been dropping since 2021. You do need to have the fast ball movement to take advantage though (which we've now got after a few years of drafting/trading).

If it were still a contested ball/clearance game then Carlton would be winning every week and Longmuir would be hailed as a master coach. Instead, they still love bombing it forward from a clearance and turning it over; even when they get a turnover their ball movement is super slow and allows an opposition to defend them easier.