Marc Murphy

[Mat0369]

I'd hold. He wasn't running all that well but that doesn't hurt his contested game. One thing to consider is Levi Greenwood doing a tagging job. He ran with Selwood today but oddly enough when he went with Murphy last year Murph still played well and it had little effect. Murphy has loved Collingwood in the past as well and has had some big games vs the Pies.

Unless he starts to miss games with the knee you keep him.

[_wato]

For Murph's sake he's had a poor fortnight now so Pies may not feel the urge to tag him, but possibly chuck a forward tag on Docherty who absolutely annihilated the Swans. Greenwood can play forward too. Would expect Pies to feel they have the Blues through the middle already without having to play run with.

[Mat0369]

It hasn't been a poor fortnight, he was great against the Swans and had the poor game along with 95% of the team vs Port. If I was goin to tag someone it would be Gibbs or Cripps. They give  so much drive in the midfield along with Murphy and Simmo that you either take out the source (Cripps) or force the gimpier one in Murphy to beat you. Doc will still get his touches and if you want to stop him you just need your forwards to press up on the switch. We chip it around a lot so it's just a matter of team defense and closing down the outlets quickly.

[tkringle]

It hasn't been a poor fortnight, he was great against the Swans and had the poor game along with 95% of the team vs Port. If I was goin to tag someone it would be Gibbs or Cripps. They give  so much drive in the midfield along with Murphy and Simmo that you either take out the source (Cripps) or force the gimpier one in Murphy to beat you. Doc will still get his touches and if you want to stop him you just need your forwards to press up on the switch. We chip it around a lot so it's just a matter of team defense and closing down the outlets quickly.

I didn't get to see the swans game. So his game was better than his SC score suggests then Mat0369? Was he running freely?

[RaisyDaisy]

Still racking up 30+ touches. Just needs to get that polish back, more contested etc and he'll be right