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I have re-watched the first half in detail to see what the difference was. I'll post a video sometime this week in the strategy thread but to summarise, in the first quarter we were very disorganised around stoppages. We also had a couple of defensive lapses etc. But we certainly had been more positive with the ball movement, we just didn't have a lot of the ball to show it until later in the quarter. In the second quarter, our stoppages were much better organised and it created better opportunities for repeat forward fifty entries, intercepts and ball movement.
I'm interested to know your thoughts on why we seemed to be outnumbered constantly around the ball (though maybe it only just seemed that way), why they had so much space in transition, and most importantly how they were able to get players out the back, or outnumber us in their forward line during that first quarter.