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"You want your key forward to be a beast."
In 1993 Malcolm Blight offered the full forward spot to 32-year-old Gary Ablett in a move to prolong his career and the rest is history.
So Geelong didn’t win a premiership, but the ageing champion topped the 100-goal mark for the next three seasons and made another two grand final appearances.
So why not Jonathan Brown at the Brisbane Lions.
It was thought he may retire at the end of last season but he has stayed on and I for one want him playing as long as he can be valuable, and I believe that he can be more valuable and rejuvenated at full forward.
This is what can be achieved at full forward.
Physically, he’d be doing less running and he’d been moving towards the ball most of the time and not running back into packs.
From a team perspective he’s be a great target to have hovering in the goal square.
In some cases he’d be double teamed and he’s have to knock the ball to the roving department which could be as dangerous as his marking ability.
He could kick 50 to 70 goals in this position.
But most of all, if this was tried and it worked Brown may be able to play another season or two like Gary Ablett, Barry Hall and Alistair Lynch. I can only see positives in such a move and can’t find any negatives.
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"You want your key forward to be a beast."
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