- Apr 25, 2011
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I think we all acknowledge we need a tall forward, but gifting games to Tabs is not the answer. If Sandi is back next week I'd play Darcy at full forward, if not leave it as is or bring in Strnadica. I want to see Tabs fight for his spit, yesterday he did not do that and Strnadica did.
I don't care who does it, but for structure we need someone forward who can contest and both Cam/Kersten/Crozier have suffered from the lack of it. Darcy and Stradnica are options, but until they were even considered AFL ready, Tabs clearly should have been in.
On an individual performance, sure it makes sense to have dropped Tabs, a dropped mark that should have been taken in the forward 50 is a dropped mark in the forward 50. BUT, compare that to the situation in games without him, where we have an opposition marking instead of Tabs spilling the ball (with an occasional mark forward) - such as Harry Taylor routinely mopping up the ball on the weekend, it should be obvious that we need him in for structure until we have someone else.
For the most part we wouldn't have capitalised on a spilled ball anyway this year, as we didn't have anyone to crumb, but with Ballas back its a different matter.