07-18-2017, 04:31 AM
The intimidation stuff worked vs Ablett but fell over vs Lewis who seemed to be able to handle it better I guess because thats a factor of his game too...problem was in the Melbourne game the umps seemed to get fed up up with it and started paying silly frees against us...
I remember when Ryan Crowley was king of close tagging/pinching/pushing etc and those tactics worked for a while until a few of the big names like Harvey/Ablett/coaches started to complain and I think the AFL decided it wasnt a great look and Crowley got no love from the umps at all and was even getting whacked behind play himself and it was ignored. These things go in cycles and I think we need to learn from the Melbourne game that there is a limit and when the umps have had enough we need to back off.
Martin getting off also shows the big stars have a bit of licence to hit back and that no name taggers are going to be fair game...
I remember when Ryan Crowley was king of close tagging/pinching/pushing etc and those tactics worked for a while until a few of the big names like Harvey/Ablett/coaches started to complain and I think the AFL decided it wasnt a great look and Crowley got no love from the umps at all and was even getting whacked behind play himself and it was ignored. These things go in cycles and I think we need to learn from the Melbourne game that there is a limit and when the umps have had enough we need to back off.
Martin getting off also shows the big stars have a bit of licence to hit back and that no name taggers are going to be fair game...