“You could see it two or three years ago, they'd have him on and off the bench, playing explosively, going forward and doing damage,” says another club official. The Magpies are central to the modern tagging tale in another way: in Swan, they have the player as responsible as any for breaking the tag once and for all. “To put a tagger in, who are you going to take out?” he says, running through Pendlebury, Dane Swan, Dale Thomas et al on the list of gun on-ball options. “For us it's about the Collingwood football team taking on the Brisbane Lions team of this week, not necessarily is it Scott Pendlebury taking on Simon Black.”Īs noted by one football official who has watched the game change more times than he cares to remember, the traditional shut-down midfielder needed to be in the centre square to take up his role.
#TONY THE TAGGER PLUS#
“Are we going to play our structure at 17 plus this tagger, or are you going to back your structure to the nth degree? And if you do that, the question for the coaching group is, 'Well, can you tag?' ”Ĭollingwood, quite simply, doesn't need to, although Neeld says it's all a matter of degrees the premier is the template for a focus that spread from one man on another to accountability across the ground. “If you want to tag someone, you have to make the decison - am I playing on them all the time, or some of the time?” Neeld says. Which comes back to that dreaded duo - a club's system and structure - and leads to the question a coaching staff intuitively knows can only be answered by asking another: how good are we? Such as the “run-with” player - who switches from a defensive to attacking mindset as the situation demands - and the catch-all of “accountability”, for a player when he has possession, or when the ball is in a certain part of the ground. Although the graffiti offends me and it's a problem we have to address, it's not worth losing lives over.Collingwood's highly rated assistant, who marshalls the hardest midfield to nullify in the competiton, says the term “tagging” isn't really used in-house anymore, and that definitions of what has replaced it vary from club to club, and even coach to coach. They say they'll tie them up and spray-paint them, or give them a `damn good hiding'. "I get at least one call a week from people telling me what they'll do to these taggers if they catch one. His was a harsh sentence and I hope it acts as a deterrent. "In the last three weeks - and I think Ford Randell's prison sentence has had something to do with this - it's quietened down quite dramatically. They think this is the only way they'll be famous, by having a tag name," Mrs Barnes said. "They all claim to be bored and they all want to be famous. All but two were male and more than two-thirds were aged 13 to 17. This year police have arrested 23 taggers. Since July 1 last year, Hastings police have received reports of 165 tagging offences, 27 per cent of which have resulted in an arrest. That way the taggers can be caught," Mrs Barnes said. "We have two guys working nearly fulltime painting over the tagging as soon as it's reported, but what we need is people to call the police as they see it happen.
The council had received more than 160 calls on its freephone line so far this year, compared with just 25 in all of last year. Everyone around here is sick of graffiti," she said.īusinesses and residents are telling the council more often about tagging vandalism. "He's a judge who seems to be very in touch with how the community is feeling, and the community has had enough. "He's become bit of a local hero for his stance.
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