The Hard Road To The Premiership

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My personal view is also that until you get a few decent, smart forwards in your team your forward entries are usually going to be terrible. Opp defences these days are very fit, well drilled and organised, and we are very easy to set up against because we don't have multiple marking threats and players who can draw opponents away from the ball. The obvious example of this is Hawthorn, who have a great balance of athletic talls, mid sized marking players [Gunston] and smaller players [Rioli, Bruest, Puopolo, Shields]. 

True'...but it's pretty hard to know how good your forwards really are when they're starved of opportunities.

One of the things we have to be careful of is looking at the forward line in isolation.
So much depends on the backline and midfield creating scoring opportunities for the forwards.

If you're being beaten further down the field a forward's life can be a pretty lonely one and a defence's job is so much easier if forward entries are constantly being made under pressure.