I just don’t think we are good enough with our ball movement/disposal to pull off the small forward line thing, and Premiershipmond are just a flash in the pan anyway. We have been too small as it is down there over the last few years, or at least have lacked another quality tall. Besides, it’s not like we have a plethora of quality small forwards.
On a related note, and this won’t be popular, but I see no reason why the Taylor fwd experiment won’t continue next season. I am not necessarily for or against this (he did ok on occasion, was poor at other times), but we did nothing to address our tall forward issues during the trade period (despite there being some genuine options up for grabs) and, despite the retirements, we still have more depth in tall defensive types than we do down forward. Perhaps it has been stated somewhere that Taylor will return to defence fulltime, but otherwise I think we might all just be assuming that this is what will happen. Personally, I think there is still a gaping hole to be filled key fwd, and Stanley ain’t good enough and buzza still has a long long way to go.