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10 Aug 05:50am

Filed under: Afl, Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Rodney Eade

“Rocket” Rodney Eade would be proud of the tactics being used right on the siren by our Western Bulldogs-loving prime minister.

Right! I want youse all to get down the back with Julia. And stay there! Image: Channel Seven.

Eade, a former coach of the Sydney Swans and now at the helm with Julia Gillard’s club Footscray, was one of the football strategists of the late 80s and early 90s who pioneered the controversial tactic known as flooding.

The tactic works like this – if you’re narrowly in front with a few minutes to go, don’t take the risk of trying to score, rather get all of your forwards to play up back so that there’s 18 men “flooding” the opposition forward line to dominate possession.

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MK says:

09:59am | 11/08/10

Tell Me about it Elizabeth, the only people worse than that are the ones that beleive the dribble of the coalition, the reason they are worse is these fools actualy have the gall to think they have a clue what is going on. These same people that harped that we… Read more »
Elizabeth says:

08:34am | 11/08/10

I cannot believe there are people out there who really believe what Julia Gillard, Wayne Swann and the Labor Party are saying. These people just cannot grasp the reality of the vast damage that Labor has done to this country whilst in power. If they had not been left such… Read more »

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