Quick Clear After a Save

Verified in part · checked against Kaley and Donovan, and Belgium’s national team playbook, with Zimmerman and England

The play, beat by beat

1. 1Shooter's Defender cutsMidline Breaker cuts
2. 2Goalie passes to Shooter's DefenderShooter's Defender cuts
3. 3Shooter's Defender carriesMidline Breaker cuts

Coaching points

• On the shot, the shooter's defender leaves at once: get a five-yard start up the middle while the shooter is still drifting at the cage.
• Goalie: call it on the save and use your four seconds to read in order. The shooter's defender up top, the middie breaking to the midline, then a wing pole cutting wide below GLE.
• Throw only to a man with no rider in the lane. Nobody open and nobody on you: carry it until a rider picks you up, or take it behind the cage, then walk it up with your defenders level (Belgium).
• Run your outlets away from the substitution box side, so they cannot change their defensive middies easily (Zimmerman and England).

How it was checked

A standard play the sources back, but a step or detail of it rests on a single source or on our own reading of them. Verified in part · checked against Kaley and Donovan, and Belgium’s national team playbook, with Zimmerman and England.

More clears

• Banana Clear
• Ladder Clear
• 43 Punt Return Clear