Dutchy wrote:Booney wrote:Dutchy wrote:The 6-6-6 is making the midfield more open and inside 50's easier but now there are 12 blokes inside 50 instead of 6-8 previously which is creating much more chaos and contested footy and hence less scoring.
There's been 12 in the two 50's for about 3 years, 5 forwards and 7 defenders.
Disagree, while there were +1's and +2's at times, there were as many as 4 forwards up on the CHF square at the bounce, now they have to be all inside 50 which is making it very crowded. I havent seen the stats yet but Im guessing I50's are up, but scoring isn't.
Watching Talking Footy last night, they made a good point about the 6-6-6 - Hawthorn in previous years would've flooded back to stem the momentum on the weekend, they couldn't and the Bulldogs just kept on winning clearances and scoring.
Also similar with Rd 1 Geelong and Collingwood, the 6-6-6 allowed the Cats to stay in the game when they were a goal behind because the Pies couldn't fill the D50.