Tagging started to come back in in the 2nd half of the year this year though and Jacobs for North is one who is particularly good at it. Shut Steven right out of it in one of their games against us, with Dumont doing similarly in the other. Will be interesting to see if it continues into next year.
You'd have to think if we didn't let Mitchell run around on his own and get 44 disposals against us down in Tassie and pretty much beat us on his own we would have beaten Hawthorn, maybe even relatively comfortably.
I doubt very much that we got Phillips for his tagging ability, but it sounds like he got some scalps this year (including McCluggage) while also doing some damage himself the other way, so it sounds like he has the attributes and attitude for it if we did want someone to play that sort of role down the track.
Look I think tagging is a great idea.
If team a) pays a million bucks for a gun player and you can nullify him with Clinton Jones, why the hell wouldn't you.
I thinks the 5 people tagging game Ross Lyon had us doing was a bit dumb.
BUT.
Does anyone draft for a player they think will be a good tagger, or are they essentially failed midfielders?