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Yes, but they are 14th for marks in recent weeks. To me this suggests that teams are learning (as St Kilda and Fremantle did) to take this part of their game off them.
To your earlier point, it's possible that the other side to the coin, besides controlling possession ourselves, is having the discipline to not allow them to play that way?
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While we concede the lowest uncontested marks against - I’m not sure I can attribute that to our defensive application. Clearly when we take so many marks ourselves we control the ball more than our opponent.
The other component though is that I think teams want to move the ball super quickly against us, often being happy to kick to contest and hope the ball gets out the back so our defenders are turned around or have to press up leaving gaps.
Will be an interesting chess match on Sunday.