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Situational Defence: Defending Vertical Stack by Brummie

How can we best defend against Vertical Stack?

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Vertical stack is very simple to learn and as such there aren’t a huge number of options that the offence can make use of. Usually, teams that make a success of vertical stack are those who can dominate their individual match ups; see Ironside’s 2016 championship run for a recent example. There are a number of effective strategies for defending against vertical stack, and most utilise the principle that players stood in the stack are not actively a threat. There are […]

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