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I am not encouraged by the solid belief that eventually a coach will be able to counter flooding because it is darn near impossible. The only way to beat it is to bomb in goals from outside 50m and pray they go through. That isn't likely to happen as accuracy hasn't exactly improved since the old days.

We have to change something in the rules and I'm not sure which way to go with the rule change. A line down the middle of the ground would also be bloody impossible to umpire. As on talking footy last night, maybe make goals from outside 50 worth a few points more so that opposition have to cover outside their defensive zone. This might work.(might be a bit too much like basketball though) We introduced the diamond to get rid of the clutter around the ball because no one could think of something better and it worked. Don't ride off rule changes due to history because we need to continue to improve this game.

Anyone got any other suggestions that could be introduced to get past the flooding tactic?