Blue players run flat ball sucking in defence while the grey back 3 play the wider balls out of the back door
Blue players must run straight fast lines to run either a crash ball or to act as a dummy run taking a defender out of the phase as the back door player runs between the blue where the space is or to pull in more defenders before releasing the ball wide
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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