I just don’t think Tabs is ever going to be the type of player to crash a pack. He’s a really straight-up-and-down player - he plays almost exclusively on the y-axis. You very rarely see him do anything even close to reckless on the footy field. He doesn’t jump into or over packs, he doesn’t throw himself horizontally for marks, and he doesn’t tackle. He just sensibly goes about his business of being mobile, tall, standing up straight, and marking the ball when it’s in his airspace and he doesn’t have two goombas on him.
As an aside, the person who most reminds me of Clive at the moment is Fyfe in the forward line (except Clive would actually kick goals from time-to-time). Imagine having a Brownlow Medallist at the tail of his peak playing the Clive Waterhouse role.
