Is Ryan Crowley the best tagger in the AFL?

[port_adelaide_1870]

No Kane Cornes is the best tagger

 

[bones54]

A lot of players do that, not just Crowley. Plus it is a contact sport, after all.

100% Agree. Tagging is a part of the game now

 

[Some Idiot]

Best in the AFL at the moment but he is still a dirty prick. Not saying this cause I barack for North, I've just never liked him. Taggers like Ling, Rawlings and Hocking I actually don't mind.

Scott Thompson is known for similar scragging tactics.

 

[Substance]

^ I was going to mention pinching in my earlier post but forgot. He does that a lot, especially to players on the ground. Also thought his dive/acting as if he'd been smashed in the face with a hammer was a disgrace too.

 

[roo beleaver]

So now that Crowley has been charged with pinching can you still say he plays within the laws? He holds, bumps, pins players to the ground and obviously pinches. He's as dirty as they come

 

[Tragic sainter]

So now that Crowley has been charged with pinching can you still say he plays within the laws? He holds, bumps, pins players to the ground and obviously pinches. He's as dirty as they come

He's contesting that charge I believe.

 

[roo beleaver]

He's contesting that charge I believe.

Yeah because he wouldn't have done it hey

 

[YelloMit]

Yeah, well I think most people would contest it if they got charged $1200 for pinching someone.

 

[Engimal]

Scott Thompson is known for similar scragging tactics.

2013 =/= 2010

 

[roo beleaver]

Yeah, well I think most people would contest it if they got charged $1200 for pinching someone.

Lucky he didn't get fined for staging too

 

[eth-dog]

Lucky he didn't get fined for staging too

If they were serious about those charges Lindsay Thomas and Scott Thompson would have been in debt with the fines they'd paid

 

[roo beleaver]

If they were serious about those charges Lindsay Thomas and Scott Thompson would have been in debt with the fines they'd paid

I don't care who does it, I always hate it

 

[Roughies Boys]

If Freo we're playing dirty... Hawthorn of 2008 was a dirty team! It's called unsociable footy!

 

[WIZARD24]

agree with big moose there not here to shag spiders here play a win football games a few north supporters a just venting atm

 

[Mori]

Ryan O'Keefe is the best defensive minded midfielder in the AFL. I wouldn't call O'Keefe a tagger but he plays on the best midfielders every week like Pendlebury, Watson, Scott Thompson etc. and nullifies their influence while winning plenty of the ball himself plus lays about 10 tackles a game and is a weapon around the stoppages. Accountable midfielders who can attack as well are a lot more valuable than taggers.

Crowley only survives in Ross Lyon's system. Crowley offers nothing going forward and regularly turns his back on the play just to stop his opponent. Lyon puts mass numbers around the ball and empties his forward line more than any other coach and with all those numbers around the ball you can afford to have a midfielder turn his back on the play and just tag an opponent.

Crowley's defensive game is massively overrated, he is the only midfielder in the game that has the license to stop his opponent at all costs without having to worry about winning his own ball.

 

[Tragic sainter]

Crowley's defensive game is massively overrated, he is the only midfielder in the game that has the license to stop his opponent at all costs without having to worry about winning his own ball.

And he does it brilliantly. Won more of his own ball than boomer did on the weekend too. Also it seems to be working for freo so I don't really see the harm.

 

[Dan]

Purely as a tagger/shut down player.......he is the best with out question.

 

[Elite Master]

Crowley wouldn't cut it playing any other role within any other team system.

 

[Tragic sainter]

Crowley wouldn't cut it playing any other role within any other team system.

Didn't your coach say something like it was good boomer took him to the goal square because he was quite a good clearance player?

 

[Sydswans0512]

Carrazzo when he's not injured

 

[The Edukator]

i like andrew carrazzo better. i also recall seeing him tug harveys shirt to stop him from getting a run on to the ball at one stage which i think is kinda dirty but i do it all the time when i play soccer sooo...

 

[Power Raid]

I hate him....which means he is good at his job

 

[Bailey01]

He's the only player to have effectively tagged griffen this year so there's that. But I vote no because I hate him and his dirty tactics. so there

Sam Kerridge kept Griff to only 15 disposals at 12% efficiency in Round 4.

 

[lmach]

Sam Kerridge kept Griff to only 15 disposals at 12% efficiency in Round 4.

Griffen got injured halfway through the third term and played no further part.

 

[Bailey01]

Griffen got injured halfway through the third term and played no further part.

Okay that explains a lot.