Watch how a 'take over' (when players interchange positions) opens up space or a time and a window of space for a shot or pass.
Their attack-minded players interchanged positions fluently and, at times, it was remarkable to see how much space they enjoyed in central areas.
The game is played continuously in two 40-min halves, and game-play involves two teams of 13 on-field players and four interchange players who may be switched in and out of the game.
The total football approach requires the players to move in a fluid formation, where players can interchange positions quickly.
Just last month the former Ajax, Barcelona and Holland star, one of the main exponents, along with Rinus Michels, of the world famous Total Football – the Dutch style of play that involved players constantly interchanging roles – popularised in the 1970s but still playing a major influence on modern football, said he was "2-0 up" in his match with lung cancer.
Though a World Cup title eluded him, he was the pivotal figure on the Netherlands' 1974 national team that electrified the sport with its total football tactics, with players constantly interchanging roles.
Instead the 34-year-old has rolled up the sleeves of his No17 jersey and continued to serve as a utility player from the interchange bench – and how he must be enjoying the club's blistering start to the season.
The 29-year-old has endured a testing year even by the standards of his Leeds team-mates, having lost his place as the starting scrum-half and been forced to adapt to a new role as an impact player off the interchange bench.
Stand-in hooker Thomas Leuluai and interchange player Lewis Brown did an excellent job filling in but the selection of the dynamic and driven Luke is a must and will improve the Kiwis' chances to control the game — while at the same time taking some responsibility off Johnson and Foran's shoulders.
Hunt wasn't picked for the first match, with Slater picked ahead of him, however in the match, interchange player Kurt Gidley sustained an injury which subsequently led to Hunt being picked on the interchange bench for the second match.
