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A bigger deal out west.
No, it's impossible to know.
We weren't playing him in defense to turn him into a defender.
We were doing it to help him develop and improve his game. And his game HAS improved.
This may have had zero to do with it, or maybe it didn't. You can't know.
There is no part of a forwards game that improves by playing in defense, and yes, that includes defensive forwards (seeing it relies on a different part of the defensive spectrum). There is no part of that decision that had anything to do with improving Fogartys game either. It was us panicking and thinking Fog wasn't our next key forward and trying to find another position for him because he wasn't starring after 3-4 games.
Fogs game improved, but it improved because the penny dropped with Fogs preparation and due to dumb luck with Tex getting rubbed out for a game when otherwise, we would have panicked and dropped Fog. It had sweet **** all to do with how Adelaide coached him until Rahilly got ahold of him, thankfully. As we tried everything to ruin him prior.