gustiger12 said:
Everyone keeps talking about Lids not being able to deal with the hard tag but Iam yet to see him get a lot of help from some of his supposed elder statesmen on the team. Other teams usually have someone who gives these sort of taggers something to think about when the are being a little over zealous. Maybe a few of our senior blokes need to aske if they can do a little more to remind some of these taggers that they are being watched.
Plus the good teams have two or three good-to-top midfielders, and a very good tagger.
Look at the Eagles now....Judd and Kerr (throw Cousins in there as well)...thats a lot for the opposition to tag.
Then with their defensive midfielders, they have Braun or Chick..
Even a non-flashy team like the Roos....they have Harvey, Grant, and Harris (throw in Wells also), and then they have the likes of Rawlings, as a tagger.
With the Tigers at present, the opposition know, shut down Lids and we lose a LOT of our 'explosiveness' from the middle.
Most of our midfielders, such as Tuck and Johnson may get possessions, but they're like Adam Simpson of the 'Roos....they aren't really damaging, and not very fast....so it means we 'stop and go back' a lot.
Throw in Cogs AND Brown, and all of a sudden, we're starting to look a bit more threatening around stoppages, especially with Simmo giving us a good chance at a tap down the throat to one of our own midfielders, instead of relying on an undersized and inexperienced Patto.
If anything, what Lids is going through now, will out him in good stead for when we do have a good run with injuries (and some more classy players) in the middle.