I was certainly in the minority, but actually felt that a fair portion of Roughead's best footy for us was as a tall defender. He played the role in the worst of times, where the defenders were getting exposed by us being poor defensively in the middle when Griff, Coons & Higgins - and to a certain extent Boyd, were all ball hunters and didn't defend, and the ball was coming in pretty easily. Thought Rough battled along pretty well most of the time despite this.

Easy to say in hindsight, but the way the game is being played at the moment, where apart from centre stoppages - teams move the ball via a series of short kicks, and then end up going in long and high - Roughead is quite well suited.