Enlisted off Port Adelaide's SANFL team in the new mid-season rookie draft, Cameron Sutcliffe was picked for five senior games where he tagged almost exclusively, either in midfield or as a defensive forward. His own statistical output was not the point of his game. Sutcliffe has had close to zero personal fantasy relevance in his career across two clubs, but now we have to factor in his presence as a stopper. Nevertheless, none of his 2019 tagging targets failed to reach 20 disposals, so his skills as a tagger are not that fearsome.
Dragged up the cliff
Enlisted off Port Adelaide's SANFL team in the new mid-season rookie draft, Cameron Sutcliffe was picked for five senior games where he tagged almost exclusively, either in midfield or as a defensive forward. His own statistical output was not the point of his game. Sutcliffe has had close to zero personal fantasy relevance in his career across two clubs, but now we have to factor in his presence as a stopper. Nevertheless, none of his 2019 tagging targets failed to reach 20 disposals, so his skills as a tagger are not that fearsome.
Over the Sutcliffe
If Ross Lyon intended to ruin the continuity of his half backs last year, it was mission accomplished. He wouldn't pick Cameron Sutcliffe and Thomas Sheridan in the same team for long periods of the year, leading to lowered ratings in the second of Sutcliffe's three senior stints. He was used as a tagger in midfield towards the end, with little result. Sutcliffe was only ever on the fringes of fantasy relevance anyway, so this is no great loss on that score. One has to wonder what Lyon was playing at with his staccato selection policy. Is it the bizarro Barassi: if you give him stats, he makes you shut up? Whatever lesson he was trying to instil in the likes of Sutcliffe, it didn't centre on accumulating the footy.
