nup - never a spud. Marty is a classy player.
Sometimes it happens that one doesn’t see it. But now you do. That’s fine and you can enjoy watching him.
for a guy as slight as he is, he has amazing courage. Must back back into packs without ever taking his eyes off the ball at least twice a game. Hasn’t really missed a beat since coming back
I was one of the knockers. My gripe was always his strength in the contest. Especially his tackling. Have to give him credit thou, he has been fantastic since coming back into the side. He really has given us great flexibility with him being able to play big and small. He’s won me over.
I find it strange how many Essendon supporters make a big deal about Marty being too thin to be a decent defender, considering our greatest ever defender was built like The Slender Man.
I find that the slighter players can be very good at tackling. It may because they make the extra effort and develop a more effective technique to compensate for their lack of brute force.