Flooding is a tactic used in the sport of Australian rules football. It involves the coach releasing players in the forward line from their set positions and directing them to the opposition forward area, congesting the area and making it more difficult for the opposition to score. It is commonly deployed to protect a lead, or prevent a rout. Tactics is the collective name for methods of winning a small-scale conflict, performing an optimization, etc. ... Australian Rules and Aussie Rules redirect here. ...

History

First used in the 1990s, Terry Wallace and Rodney Eade were the earlier main exponents of the tactic. Hawthorn Premiership Player (Australian Rules Football), Western Bulldogs Coach 1996 to 2002 Terry Wallace was a good if not outstanding centre position player in a champion team at Hawthorn, briefly at Richmond and at Footscray (Western Bulldogs). ... Rodney Rocket Eade (born April 4, 1958) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. ...

One of the most famous instances of this being used was in the Round 21 game between the Western Bulldogs and Essendon at Colonial Stadium in 2000, where Bulldogs coach Terry Wallace successfully quelled the Bombers' scoring power and defeated the team which had won the previous 20 games. The Western Bulldogs, formerly known as the Footscray Football Club or The Bulldogs is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based at the Whitten Oval in western suburban Melbourne, Australia, drawing its supporter base from this traditionally poor, industrial, and less leafy part of Melbourne. ... Essendon Football Club logo Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club that is part of the Australian Football League. ... The Telstra Dome by day Telstra Dome is a stadium in the developing Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Australia, that caters for both sporting and entertainment events. ... Hawthorn Premiership Player (Australian Rules Football), Western Bulldogs Coach 1996 to 2002 Terry Wallace was a good if not outstanding centre position player in a champion team at Hawthorn, briefly at Richmond and at Footscray (Western Bulldogs). ...