On Sunday afternoon, Collingwood played three tall forwards for the first time this year against the Western Bulldogs.
They did this against a team that has struggled greatly against key forwards in 2019.
Part of the Bulldogs' difficulty has come from a lack of key defenders, with premiership player Jordan Roughead joining the Pies in the trade period.
Roughead has played every game for Collingwood this year as a key defender and has been a rock in defence for them.
Former Essendon captain Tim Watson believes Roughead and Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge simply didn’t see eye to eye in his last few years at the club.
“I think it was just a personality breakdown with the coach,” Watson told SEN Breakfast.
“I think the coach maybe wanted him to be a player that was capable of playing at the other end of the ground and didn’t see him as possibly where he’s best suited and that is as a key position defender.
“After a while, the player stops believing in the coach and the coach stops believing in the player and the best thing that both can do is part ways.”
Former St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt finds the whole situation surrounding Roughead’s departure odd.
“It’s strange for the breakdown to occur so soon after a premiership. He’d checked out in the back half of last year,” Riewoldt said.
Roughead said as much when asked by the Herald Sun earlier in the year.
"I honestly genuinely believe a lot of it was the staleness of getting in the car every morning and driving over the West Gate Bridge to the only place that I have ever worked,” he said.
"I got drafted to the Bulldogs when I'd just turned 18, I was coming up 28 and hadn't had a different perspective. I'd had the same coach or coaches for five years and I just needed a refresher.
"I needed some different opinions and different perspectives to develop me as a person as much as a footballer.
"There were probably three or four conversations and moments throughout last year and I made the decision midway through to start looking for a new home.
"It had got to the point where it probably would have been not play, over playing for the Bulldogs, so I knew that I needed a fresh look at it and a clean slate to start again.
"I still had the belief. I still believed in myself and my ability. I knew that with players and coaches around me that believed in me then I would be able to get out there and play some good footy."
Roughy stood up against his former side.
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