Morgan,
To take contested marks, you need to be able to judge the ball in flight and have good hands. If any of what you said was true then Tabs wouldn't be one of the leading contested marks in the game. Not so much this year sue to injury but he topped the AFL average contested marked per game in 2017. In his final two years at Freo, Matt Pavlich was behind Taberner in contested marking.
You don't need acceleration, speed, timing and all the rest you claim. Tabs and Cox have what it takes to take the marks in the forward line. What makes it harder for them, is they are not in a position to take those marks often enough because they are not playing in a system that keeps them forward.
You are saying this that are completely untrue to justify our poor performance that is caused by our methods not our abilities. Sometimes I wonder if you even watch our games.
The breakdown with Tabs and Cox is their kicking on goal, which is simply a skill issue. Tabs, in particular, has shown he can kick straight but when you don't practice your skills, you lose them.. They're still taking plenty of marks though which shoots holes in the nonsense you posted.
Put them in a team where skills are a focus, there the game plan isn't defend, defend, defend and maybe score occasionally and they would be returning much better figures.
Oh and the last time Tabs played on Rance he took 5 Contested marks in a team, that was smashed.
In spite of you claiming we don't have the weapons, what we don't have is the system to get the best out of them. Its stupid to have a system that doesn't promote scoring and then somehow blame the players for not scoring.
