The physicality part of it is the main thing. Acres, Cottrell, Docherty, Hollands they do chase and tackle pretty well, they go pretty hard at the contests and they find more of the footy.
O'Brien doesn't have that aspect to his game. The other thing the above do is drop back in defence and fill a hole and generally have an impact doing that. Generally can mark and spoil overhead fairly well which is not common in O'Brien's game.
You see it all the time. Average players in ordinary teams threatening to go the next level but never do, just play the average game then the team recruits and develops well and they are upgraded on.
We have had plenty of players in our team over the years who have gone from best 22 to being squeezed out to being a fair way from it.
If we get out list fully fit for finals we will have Docherty and Acres on the wings and that will be one of the stronger wing duos in the game. Get a lot of the ball, inside outside players who are great in the contest and great on the outside, drop back in defence well, kick goals, run and carry, chase and tackle, good overhead, good footy IQ. Not really any holes.
The other thing is we also have Binns in the reserves who he's playing along side and is out playing him every week.
I hope O'Brien finds a home and think he will, he's a mature expierenced AFL player with youth on his side. We should not undersell the spill over of our list, it's really good now, it wasn't that long ago we were really poor and chasing players like this spilling out of better lists.
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