Beating poaches in side stack by Beau Kittredge

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Side stack gives a huge amount of field space for an offence to work in. Many teams will counter this by using multiple defenders to clog up the cutting lanes, so this drill teaches how to play against this defence.

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    Communicate the poached player and aim to keep the disc moving; defenders will find it more difficult to poach effectively when the disc keeps changing position.

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Setup:

Have a handler, A, in the middle of the goal line marked by D1. The remaining offensive players all stand on one side of the field, no further than 15m from the disc.

Step 1

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  • If they do poach. Have the first cut engage the under poach and the 2nd cutter fill in that area that is open.

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