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I think this is all true but you also have to do the best with what resources you have. Comben forward allows us the most high quality players in the side playing closest to their best positions since Comben is so much better than our next CHF and Logue is a very good intercept mark with Corr or one of two Dawsons taking dangerous opponents.I'm in the minority with this view clearly;
But an elite intercepting CHB with modern game plans is far more important than a second tall forward that kicks even 40-50 goals a season, or even more.
So much scoring is generated and prevented from them and they are absolutely priceless.
Comben's intercept stats are not normal and not even replaceable more than likely.
Teams spend years and years looking for a key defender that can intercept like Lever, Moore, Andrews and Taylor. Comben is on that tier.
That level of defender almost always correlates with teams that win Premierships and/or come very close.
Think Rance, Scarlett, Harry Taylor, Brian Lake etc.
Very rarely is an elite defender playing in a terrible side, they propel their sides up the ladder, quickly.
There's plenty of elite forwards playing in shit sides in history, look at Larkey....