Taggers

[NMWBloods]

How many do most sides have? I think they have a couple generally, or maybe three at the most.

We have Kirk, Crouch, Mathews, Ablett, and McVeigh, with occasional additional appearances by J Bolton, Dempster, Schneider, Jack, etc.

[Chookbilly]

How many do most sides have? I think they have a couple generally, or maybe three at the most.

We have Kirk, Crouch, Mathews, Ablett, and McVeigh, with occasional additional appearances by J Bolton, Dempster, Schneider, Jack, etc.

Exactly, we have too many. Free up one or two of them and we might actually get the ball into our fowardline before it become impossible through congestion!

[goswannie14]

We have too many, Ablett and McVeigh should be allowed for a few weeks to just run and kick long into the forward line. Let the other teams worry about tagging.

[Bloody Hell]

We have too many, Ablett and McVeigh should be allowed for a few weeks to just run and kick long into the forward line. Let the other teams worry about tagging.

Do you really think other teams would worry about tagging our midfield?!?

[Bloody Hell]

How many do most sides have? I think they have a couple generally, or maybe three at the most.

We have Kirk, Crouch, Mathews, Ablett, and McVeigh, with occasional additional appearances by J Bolton, Dempster, Schneider, Jack, etc.

Add Dempster to the tagging every week list. More often he does than not....so that's the whole midfield. Depressing....

[NMWBloods]

In reality I suspect that against most sides there are perhaps 1-3 opposition players you need to tag. The rest of the players can concentrate on getting the ball and just picking up their man as normal when the opposition has the ball.

I agree with GS14 that it would be good to see Ablett and McVeigh have a go at just trying to get the ball.

[hammo]

I had the same sentiments before the Lions game.

Anyone else slightly deflated by the fact that despite playing in the past two grand finals we are talking tags for a couple of 21 year olds??

Despite being dual grand finalists and supposedly being the elite of the competition, we're still the hunters, not the hunted, and have even added some extra taggers to the team for good measure.

[goswannie14]

Do you really think other teams would worry about tagging our midfield?!?

I wasn't thinking about the midfield.

[stellation]

Do you really think other teams would worry about tagging our midfield?!?

I wish they would try it, I think it has the potential to offer some pretty bloody good entertainment.

[Nico]

How many do most sides have? I think they have a couple generally, or maybe three at the most.

We have Kirk, Crouch, Mathews, Ablett, and McVeigh, with occasional additional appearances by J Bolton, Dempster, Schneider, Jack, etc.

Come off it NMW, Bolton doesn't have a defensive bone in his body. Agree on the others though.

Problem with the first 6 is that none of them have any pace so running off their opponents is not an option although Kirk has learned the art to an extent. So we get nothing of a real positive speed nature from 6 players.

[Nico]

We play a one on one accountable game so we could say the whole team are taggers.

[mulfa]

I had the same sentiments before the Lions game.



Despite being dual grand finalists and supposedly being the elite of the competition, we're still the hunters, not the hunted, and have even added some extra taggers to the team for good measure.

Despite being dual grand finalists and supposedly being the elite of the competition, why are you as well as other's still holding out that attack is the best form of defence.

Who here really thinks that if we throw a few players into attacking roles or get some new blood into attacking roles that these guys are going to be a match for the the likes of judd or kerr.!!!

Have'nt we allready really proven that attack isn't the best form of defence since othersides supposedly have more talented players in there group.

[NMWBloods]

Come off it NMW, Bolton doesn't have a defensive bone in his body. Agree on the others though.

Problem with the first 6 is that none of them have any pace so running off their opponents is not an option although Kirk has learned the art to an extent. So we get nothing of a real positive speed nature from 6 players.

I've seen Bolton used as a tagger occasionally (and he's crap at it).

They don't need to be fast - they just need to be smart... oops hang on...

[NMWBloods]

Despite being dual grand finalists and supposedly being the elite of the competition, why are you as well as other's still holding out that attack is the best form of defence.

Because it's less boring? Because it means it is easier for us to counterattack and kick goals, thus taking advantage of our forward line?

Who here really thinks that if we throw a few players into attacking roles or get some new blood into attacking roles that these guys are going to be a match for the the likes of judd or kerr.!!!

Yeah - so tag Judd and Kerr, run head to head against the others. And how many other sides have star-studded midfields?

Have'nt we allready really proven that attack isn't the best form of defence since othersides supposedly have more talented players in there group.

And we have one of the best forward lines in the comp and we are one of the lowest scoring teams.

[Nico]

I've seen Bolton used as a tagger occasionally (and he's crap at it).

They don't need to be fast - they just need to be smart... oops hang on...

If you didn't know better , one would have thought Bolton was tagging Rawlings last week because he was always 20 metres behind him and struggling to keep up.