...you have to also consider tuck, that sometimes you dont know what the striking team is trying to achieve.

they might be trying to execute something specific or merely not lose ground and end up on a wall.

blasting up the guts against a team that has very strong defence but prefers to counter-attack slowly (ie will just defend the strike to the wall if you blast them) is just as good a way of getting the puck to a wall as trying to take it there yourself, or let the other team win and try to defend it there.

...would you rather defend in your corner or in theirs? etc etc.

as a specific example, in one game i saw in sheffield one team was down to 4 players in a crunch game, won the strike with one forward and went up the guts. took the initiative away from the team with 6 and ended up with (semi)controlled play in the middle rather than getting bashed on defence or trying to go wide across a forward line with a 2 man overlap. plus... the unexpected!

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