There was a moment last night where I had this exact thought. Iirc it was Butters mark inside 50. He had to back in an go full arms up to mark.No, what I mean is that we need to be more willing to get our hands dirty by going through them
The defender coming in from behind to try and spoil jumped around him and tried to spoil with a horizontal arm as he flew past. Needless to say he missed.
I have no idea why he didn't take the body and spoil through Butters, but he tried to spoil it nice and missed. He had no reason not to hit Butters hard and cleanly spoil the ball in the process. Not in a dirty way, it was just straight lining the ball in a mark contest. It would've been a statement spoil.
I noticed it once or twice in other moments but that was the most stark example. I think that's a perfect example of what you're talking about, don't be nice to play against, make there day a bit worse through some physicality. We don't really do that.