good thread.
His biggest weakness this year, something he was quite good at in previous years, was mobility. As age has taken him, he is more content to stand and wrestle. He is very strong, but when he is moving and leading he is far better. Whilst complete isolation would be good, it is very limiting on a player having as you said, correctly i might add, an abysmal season.
Perhaps if things arent working for us with the forward set up, a structure id like to see us implement is sub brown. Let lindsay and kayne turner play on either forward flanks. Black at true centre half forward and petrie out of the goal square. This also gives us other avenues to goal, if drew is getting beaten.