Third tall forward

[Xenthor]

I call the third tall the slightly smaller/undersized KPP. They make up for their smaller stature with mobility and strong marking ability. To me this includes guys like Gunston, Membury, Lynch from Adelaide, Stringer, Howe, Easton Wood, Sicily etc. I would even call Jeremy Cameron a third tall

 

[Xenthor]

Joey, Hooker and Stewart as our talls, Joey is the one who rotates in the ruck, Would he be our 3rd tall forward?

You don't have one. It's a type of player, not a position.

 

[Aeglos]

You don't have one. It's a type of player, not a position.

By whose definition though?
It's not as though it's an actual position when you trawl through credible AFL sources.

IMO there's only one 'traditional' AFL position left and that's the ruckmen.
Beyond that you have on ballers, forwards and defenders (and even then the line blurs)

 

[Suma Magic]

Well it seems like things aren't clear.

I'm fine with that.

 

[Beer n Skittles]

It's a term from back when traditional positions started going out the window. Instead of just the FF & CHF; some teams started playing an extra, more mobile tall forward.

Now it's a pointless and obsolete term used by weirdos who like to number their key forwards for some reason.

 

[telsor]

Teams can have more than one tall forward?

Richmond has Dan Butler as no2 (being 182cm), leaving Castagna (181cm) as our 3rd tall forward.


Mind you, they do seem kinda tall when you consider our small forward is Stengle (who is all of 171cm).

 

[Scotland]

Hawthorn are the best example for this.

2013: Roughead, Franklin, Gunston + Hale/Bailey in the ruck
2014: Roughead, Gunston + Hale/McEvoy in the ruck

2016: Gunston, Sicily, half a season from O'Brien + Ceglar/McEvoy in the ruck

Jack Gunston kicked 46 goals in 2013 and 58 in 2014. He didn't change as a player, but he effectively went from 3rd tall to 2nd tall when Franklin departed. Then Roughead was out for 2016 so he effectively became the #1 forward or '1st tall'. He's still the same player. Still takes roughly the same number of marks, contested marks, marks inside 50 etc. and still kicks roughly the same number of goals. 2017 is down but Hawthorn are down in general.

'Third tall forward' is a bit of a nothing term really. You could be Tom Lynch from Adelaide playing as a half forward getting a lot of marks and inside 50s, or you could be Rory Lobb who is 6 inches taller and plays 2/3 of the game inside 50 and the rest backing up Mumford.

 

[IllBeTheJudge]

You always here about the third tall forward. But there seems inconsistency about how this is defined. This is an important topic and definitely main board worthy...

If, for example, the Eagles lined up like this (Lycett in the ruck and Vardy playing forward/ruck):

HF: small Darling small
FF: small Kennedy Vardy

Is Darling the second or third tall in this scenario?

spot on

 

[Testekill]

Third tall is more of a mobile medium forward who is about 190cms, too small to play as a kpp but tall enough to stretch a defense

 

[Bokonon_]

Third tall is more of a mobile medium forward who is about 190cms, too small to play as a kpp but tall enough to stretch a defense

Naah
We like em around the 7ft mark, with sticky fingers

 

[pazza]

See Essendon currently play Daniher as the CHF - then Hooker and Stewart as the deeper forwards. Tends to work MOST of the time.

 

[Kwality]

I've always thought it of as who is the main target, who is the 2nd target etc. Probably need inside 50 target stats to use this correctly.

Don't know if that's the accepted use, but how I've always thought of it.

Its the the competitor who decides, who gets their #1 back, #2 etc -

 

[SterlingArcher]

Its the the competitor who decides, who gets their #1 back, #2 etc -

But you still enter grey areas - I'd say Hurley is Essendons number 1 back, and Tarrant Norths, but neither match up with the oppos best forward every week because their rebound makes up for it. The best forward on the team, the number 1, will always get the most entries directed towards them regardless of the defender on them.

Definitely a subjective decision anyway.

 

[Titch3Votes0MooreAA]

Good to be here 8 years later and say [PLAYERCARD]Jack Gunston[/PLAYERCARD] is the best third tall forward the game has ever seen.

 

[catstorm]

Good to be here 8 years later and say Jack Gunston is the best third tall forward the game has ever seen.

Debatable, Daniel Bradshaw was a gun at Brisbane.

 

[Bushdid911]

Good to be here 8 years later and say Jack Gunston is the best third tall forward the game has ever seen.

Someone obviously didn't see Jordan Croft debut on the weekend