Yeah, I agree. In Lyon’s word-salady summation “we won the contested ball, we won the kick battle, there were lots of turnovers centre forward, we weren't a collapse back team.”
We go back and forth on here about what causes the ‘collapse back’, but when we win the clearances and we have a bit of exuberance about how we play, players aren’t afraid to run forward. I thought that was the case yesterday. Perhaps by happenstance, having bigger and slower blokes forward means that don’t cover the ground as well, meaning they tend to stay a little closer to goal - which in turns creates a little gravity for the smaller mids to kick forward and run to.
Watching Langdon run strongly forward again yesterday (albeit he flubbed his shots) makes me excited about what we would look like with all three of Langdon and the Hills running forward (four on the unlikely scenario where Bennell ever plays). You can’t tag all three, which means one or two of those blokes will get off the leash if/when we win the contested footy.