I thought Roos and the FD would have noted Gawn's inability to apply anywhere near enough defensive pressure the previous week. The same thing happened against GWS. When Gawn plays as a semi-permanent forward, the opposition towels us up. Their back flankers run off him at every opportunity. It's disappointing that the FD failed to foresee this.

sounds a bit like the difference between Nev Jetta & Bennell.

or Spencer & Big Maxy...

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/2012-07-29/jake-spencer-chase-down

I thought Roos and the FD would have noted Gawn's inability to apply anywhere near enough defensive pressure the previous week. The same thing happened against GWS. When Gawn plays as a semi-permanent forward, the opposition towels us up. Their back flankers run off him at every opportunity. It's disappointing that the FD failed to foresee this.

Very flawed logic

I'll ask you a question - you are suggesting the back flankers run off Gawn at every opportunity. The question is not why back flankers are running off him but where the hell are our forward flankers !! He is 18 foot tall for gods sake - of course a back flanker is going to run off him. If his direct opponent who should be in the 195cm range and 100 kilo runs off him and he cant apply any pressure to him then we should start to worry . The players that ran away from him last week were smaller opposition collecting the spillage from his marking contests not his direct opponents. I think we lacked for a crumber last week to pick up the ball from spillages.

My concern ( and temporary concern because i think it will improve) is he is not holding enough marks that he clearly gets his hands to first. He has fairly ordinary posture in that he doesn't stand tall and take advantage of his massive height like Sandilands does. He is 22 which in ruckman terms is still very young.