In fact the plan already makes no sense to me
Why are we bringing extras to the stoppage if we are backing our selves to win it anyway? May aswell put 2 extras at half forward then to give us more options to kick too
Plus when we do win it atm we shovel it out to Hunt or Wagner or Bugg who just belt it long into the 50, why couldn't the blokes already in the midfield do that
I thought the purpose of having the half-backs push up (you all know what I'm talking about

) is so that we have numbers around the contest, and those numbers have more space than Clayton or Viney or Jones or whoever actually extracts the ball. Then (in theory - in theory communism works) Bugg or Hunt or whoever can use that extra two seconds to actually find a target in the fifty.
The real problem as I see it is that our half-forwards don't work hard enough to spread, and our half backs don't demand that they do. Subsequently the ball gets bombed in to a pack of about twelve players at the top of the 50, making it way too easy for opposition defenders to spoil/zone off their direct opponent and put a block on Hogan while their mate takes a mark.
What would be nicer is if the half forwards led to the wings, either giving Bugg an option out wide, or creating space for Hogan to work his magic.
This whole thing is overplayed of course. The two pushing up for centre clearances is/will be just one card we play. Other than that, yes I agree that our defence has been poor this year at covering each others' players and allowing us to take third man up marks/spoils. It's something we actually used to do surprisingly well.