Carlton Supporters Club

What can you tell us about him baggers?
Clearly a ball magnet, but who, if anyone does he remind you of  ?

Quote from: DJC on August 08, 2013, 05:11:32 pm

Part of the plan must be encouraging Murphy to be more physical with his tagger.  Rather than doubling over when hit in the guts, he should tough it out and give it back harder.  Even if he gets done for striking, it will blunt one of the tagger's weapons.  And the week off could help his knee 

Quote from: Dirty Harry on August 08, 2013, 06:11:44 pm

I guess the point I'm trying to make is he never sticks up for himself though.
He gets hit, punched, cleaned up and so on all year but never retaliates.  I'm sick of seeing a tagger punch him in the guts and he goes to ground, gets up and then does nothing. To me it looks weak, especially as a captain.
As much as I hate Nick Maxwell, if someone punched him in the guts it would be on.
I just want him to show some fight back instead of just copping the punches and putting up with it. It makes him look easy to be pushed around..
If I was playing on him, I'd feel pretty comfortable that I could do anything to him, push him to the limit without fear of any retribution. I reckon most taggers see him like this now and play him that way.  Time to stand up for yourself Marc.

I was lambasted for suggesting such a thing after the Saints game. My how times have changed. 

Quote from: ItsOurTime on August 08, 2013, 09:55:35 am

Quote from: Dirty Harry on August 08, 2013, 09:32:00 am

Ok if he's Injured then be needs to sit out. But in saying that he must play this week and use it to finally show his taggers that he won't take any sh1t anymore.
So the first person that gives him a cheapy to the mid section, he should turn around and Barry hall them. Give himself 4-5 weeks suspension but show the footy world that he ain't gonna take sh1t anymore from anyone.

I wouldn't expect whacking someone is going to stop the tactic. The worst case scenario is if he does that then plays a crape game. He'll subject himself to career full of the stuff. Nothing Murphy can do that will stop it, the good players cop it, go hard at the ball and get on with it instead of shrinking into their shell. 

He need support but he also needs to show that he can play even with the physical attention.

There's two ways to beat a tagger:

Run very hard and run them into the ground (usually takes effect midway through the third quarter)

Win your own contested ball/hard ball gets and  make tackling the opposition your focus (no way a tagger can stop you from tackling)