our flood is a fu*king puddle...

Not a big fan of flooding I must say. The problem you have is that you flood and then when you get the ball there's nothing to kick to upfield. Happens to us all the time.

Please shed some light on this topic for me. We are getting pumped and we continue to flood. What benefits are gained by flooding ,just as we did today in the second half.

Is this Pagans way of conceiding ? Having played a little bit of football myself in the SFL (Southern Football League ) and having played in successful and dreadful teams, the one thing that i remember we used to do when a side got 3 goals on end was man up. Go man on man. Why doesn't Pagan like the man on man theory ?

With flooding there are no options up field. You might get the ball but where do you go with it ? More often sideways, and the more sideways you go the greater the likelihood of getting nowhere, let alone more room for errors. Then again when you do attempt to go forward, its a game of ping pong, the ball comes straight back and in many cases bypasses the player who attempted to move it forward, and we are caught out again.

When i used to coach juniors ( little tackers ) the one thing that i always used to stress was that you need to continue to run into the right spaces, continue to back yourself when you see an opening and never drop your head.. It might not always come to when you go into the right spaces, but by doing this you are at the very least creating room for others, and if you are playing in a good team your team mates will automatically know where to send the ball. It becomes instinctive.

Backing yourself, well it gives you the player some room for errors, errors which as a coach you wouldn't penalise your player for. This builds self confidence.

Never dropping your head, one always plays for pride and if you don't have pride in the jumper ,at the very least you need to have pride in yourself.

Can someone tell me how flooding is helping our development as a football side ?
Can someone tell me how flooding is helping a players self confidence ?
Can someone please tell me how Flooding is an instinctive part of our football code ?

Can someone please, please, pretty please, shed some light on why even if we are going to get pumped week in week out why we don't try to play Football the way it used to be played the way it should be played, otherwise why pick a team and positions that players are picked to play. We should just name a squad that squad is a team of defenders and flooders.


I hate flooding, i can handle losing, but not when we continue to flood and lose.

Oh well... There's probably something i'm missing.

Yes indeed, just another reason as to why i'm starting to question DP's tatics! I mean, we can't even flood properly!

Kouta = #1clearance player in the leauge...................so let's start him in the back half!


For a team that floods, how do you explain Michael Braun recieving 29 UNCONTESTED POSSESIONS???????????????????????????????????????

Hey Tractor boy.
Pretty disappointing watching your team flood, if they are still getting belted. You are right, there is no developing of players if they are basically being encouraged to form scrums. You would prefer to see your players learn by being beaten one on one rather than having no direct objective other than crowding the oppositions space.
DP should bite the bullet & tell the players to back themselves. This way you will see which players are going to be there when the team is sucessful, rather than your honest battlers who as much as they try, ain't going to be there when it is time to play finals.