You are making a goose of yourself Chewy.
Are you going to go by the ambiguousness of what the coach said or what you see by actually watching us play.
If you listen to what Mark Thompson said on The Couch that night he said they like to station Scarlett where he is most effective for the team. Unfortunately, ignorant people like yourself and Mike Sheahan have interpreted that as "freeing" him up to be attacking, when it actually means ensuring he can stay around the defensive 50. What they don't want is a situation like the Collingwood game where he is having no impact trailing his man up the wings.
The fact is for anyone who has watched Geelong this year you'd see he played on the best forward. I love it how all our defenders seem to be loose men. None of them can defend. Who does everyone think is containing the Franklin's, Lloyd's, Lynch's, Fevola's, Bradshaw's, Pavlich's, Hall's etc if Scarlett isn't?
It is so frustrating that the exempt few bozos choose to disregard Scarlett's stopping abilities because he backs his judgement and attacks off his man, and because he is so good at the more attractive latter everyone forgets, or deliberately dismisses that he is the best stopper there is.
Actually other teams can be better at containing these guys than the Cats. It's just that the Cats normally outscore them in a shootout.
Fevola was far more effective against the Cats than he was with Max Hudgeton playing on him the week before.
If Scarlett was playing in a team with a weaker midfield/forward line he would not be rated so highly.