Someone must control the game plan. Ideally, someone calling the shots (not necessarily all of them) in the middle, where most of the plays start. Ideally, either/or/all 6, 7 9.
I don't care what anyone says - Wallace was the senior player whose role was not to be another Lockyer, but to take on a fair bit of the organising in the middle, along with Macca, especially with a rookie 5/8 in Norman.
If Wallace, Hunt, Macca all or severally, don't step up tonight and keep the game plan tight for the whole 80, we are going to get FLOGGED
And in saying this, I am not discounting the importance of the individual role of each player in the game plan. Point is, someone has to keep it all together. This is now finals football for us.