Tarrant as a key forward?

Do you believe that our forward line can consistently kick a winning score?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 5.9%
  • No

    Votes: 16 94.1%

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Grogg

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#28
Pack marking forwards are more important now than at any stage since the 90's.

The problem with our obvious options are that they are all lead up forwards.

Brown needs a pack splitting foil and he needs to play in the square.

With Maj the only other genuine splitter on the list and with all other factors regarding his future, his happiness in his role, etc taken into consideration then for me the obvious choice is McKay.
 
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dus

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#32
Has he though?

I'm not sure any of our defenders have been that bad defensively, Macmillan aside. There is just no midfield pressure at all.
True, they’re on a hiding to nothing.

Taz has been sloppy though. Marks bouncing off his chest, cheap turnovers, getting out positioned.

When it’s coming down 100 times without pressure though.....
 
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#33
I'm pretty sure he was played as a forward for the first part of his career. And he was a dud.

Maybe people have forgotten this, because it means giving Brads Scotts credit for turning a dud forward into an AA backman.

Yes, after ten years, we can safely say that Brads Scotts helped improve the output and career of at least one player.

Or can we?
 
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#34
I'm pretty sure he was played as a forward for the first part of his career. And he was a dud.

Maybe people have forgotten this, because it means giving Brads Scotts credit for turning a dud forward into an AA backman.

Yes, after ten years, we can safely say that Brads Scotts helped improve the output and career of at least one player.

Or can we?
He had two seasons as a CHF from 2012-2013, 29 games (we won 17 and lost 12 of those) from games 10 to 39 of his career, before the recruitment of Waite and the emergence of Ben Brown squeezed him out of the forwardline. He was asked to consider a move to defence because hlwe desperately needed a massive KPD, not because he was a dud forward.

IMO as a young player in possibly the hardest position on the ground, he showed a lot of promise without setting the world on fire. I still remember that game over at Subi.
 
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