The hard tag

[Dayze]

I wonder if this year as opposed to other years we should give less focus to the tag.
It looks to me like most teams are backing their midfielders in head to head and don't wanna play a mid down.
Other than Jacobs for nth how many other genuine taggers are there? I know Viney was pretty effective as well.
But even a player like Viney will b encouraged this year to just hit the pill.
Crowley Cornes picken macaffer carrazzo Jackson hocking all not playing... Maybe Crowley tho..

Do we put too much thought into the tag still. Will it make a comeback.
This is the reason people are leaving a player like sloane out? How often will a genuine tag really head to Sloane?

[kilbluff1985]

heard Crowley will likely be a top up player so yeah

[Dayze]

Makes it a bit more interesting having two good taggers in the league.
But until recently every team had one, now there doesn't seem to b many at all

[meow meow]

Vince did some good jobs and the best of the best Liam Picken might take up his old role with the return Libba and Stevens. Jacobs was very effective and it may have gotten other coaches thinking that there's still value in turning dribblers to taggers. Townsend wasn't recruited for his skills.

[fasttrack13]

Depends on the midfield... A lot team planning goes through a tag it's not just one player tagging another it's the whole midfield as a team who's getting to the right positions to help shut down one player even though the tagged does a lot of the work. There are structures for a tag.
A lot of the gun midfielders get their ball at stoppages and that's where players can get shut down by the tag by a whole team midfield, so in answer to Sloane he will run around the ground and his single tagger off their feet.

As for my first comment in a team like say Geelong of last year teams were able to shut down Selwood as he had virtually no one along side him who could help him out by getting winning the ball for the cats and making the other teams take their full attention off Selwood to man up others. Previous years he's had the likes of stevie.j, Bartel, christensen, stokes, Duncan all playing well.
With danger and sselwood at the club they can win their own ball thus relieving Joel of the attention he was recieving allowing him more points.

In answer to your statement, if a team has a relatively deep midfield  6-10 players then the tag won't be as damaging because then a team can't plan for that one player...

[Peter]

Saints had Weller who did some real good jobs and GWS have a couple of taggers (Palmer...)

[fanTCfool]

Ed Curnow and White can both tag for the Blues, likely to see one tag against most opponents I think. Unless Bolton changes things up.

[Money Shot]

Ed Curnow and White can both tag for the Blues, likely to see one tag against most opponents I think. Unless Bolton changes things up.

Curnow is actually quite a good tagger, I think he is a bit under rated.

[quinny88]

Hopefully Macaffer doesn't return to be a tagger again. He was very good at shutting players down and giving my SC team headaches

[fanTCfool]

Ed Curnow and White can both tag for the Blues, likely to see one tag against most opponents I think. Unless Bolton changes things up.

Curnow is actually quite a good tagger, I think he is a bit under rated.

He is good on the tag, but prefer to see him not tagging personally.

[sammy123]

past years of SC i have left certain players out due to how bad they handle a tag. marc murphy is the perfect example.

can score beautiful SC scores when allowed to roam and do as he pleases but also can be shut down and score poorly