You've got an inability to understand the pure arrogance you come across with, and your holier than thou attitude is *smile* is just annoying.
What you might have misread, oh master of linguistics, is that I was largely agreeing with you about Vlaustin and Brown. I think they're chalk and cheese in terms of what they're producing now. I just think the roles can be achieved differently. We don't need carbon paper for Brown to replace Vlaustin. That said....
Vlaustin averages less than one contested mark a game. There's no doubting his ability to do this - his heart is bigger than your mouth, which is bloody huge.
But he doesn't actually go get the ball in a contest a lot. (123 CM in 210 games or 0.6 per game).
Over his career, Vlaustin averages 5.7 marks a game - although in his first 2 years he was 4.6. In his first 32 games (first 2 years at a much harder AFL LEVEL) , he took 10 contest marks out of his 164 marks. This year 15 of his marks have been contested, out of 140.
Brown hasn't been given the indulgence of walking into a team where most of the list were spuds not suited to AFL standard. He's had to sit in the backblocks waiting for us to chase an elusive 4th premiership, and with no real injuries to the players in front for his role. In short, limited opportunity for him to come up a level in comparison to Vlaustin's early career. He's also struggled to get health - which is a concern. 26 games in 2 years isn't great, although this year was somewhat out of his control.
Now, we've only got VFL data to go by, and it's limited in what the public can see. But Brown has taken 109 marks in 26 games (available data), which is 4.2 a game.
I'd hazard a guess from what I've seen, that he's probably taken more than 1 in every 16 marks in a contest albeit it at an easier level. That's at least comparable with the volume that Vlaustin has achieved over his career.
The point of all the stats? It highlights that Vlaustin started out taking a lot less contest marks than he does nowadays and that even now most of his marks aren't contested (he's now about 1 in 10 marks being contest).
Does Brown have the same body or courage Vlaustin has? No. He hasn't displayed that life about to end desperation either that makes Nick one of my faves.
But just like Brown, Nick started slowly and grew into the player we see today. Just like Brown, Vlaustin had his early critics too, but he came good.
I think you're perceiving a role that Nick plays, that isn't backed up by data. Your projecting your own bias about how useful Brown is, into your opinions.
Data doesn't support your arguments.
Lastly, whilst I undertake a short course in reading comprehension, maybe you can pop down
here and go get your eyes checked.
