The Hawks stopped Nick Daicos with a hard tag. But how will the attack-minded Lions handle the Magpie playmaker?
Of all the players to do it, it was a fringe player – not a star – who proved it could be done. Finn Maginness shut down Nick Daicos.
“All taggers don’t really want the ball,” Collingwood veteran and former skipper Scott Pendlebury said, noting that the tagger’s first and primary job was to stop the player, and getting the ball was a bonus. “It’s not like that Hawthorn game was the first time Nick has been tagged – that was the first time he’d been tagged and beaten.
“Nick’s got that ability. If you are down there with him, it’s a whole new ball game because he is so quick, smart, [and has] endurance. If you are a tagger, do you want to be sitting there [with Daicos forward and one-out]?”Getty Images Peter was tagged as a player when he played in the centre early in his Collingwood career, before becoming a permanent forward later on. He understands how to beat the tag, and he also understands his son’s game – both of his sons’ games – better than anyone.
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