that's the annoying part though isn't it. need someone to genuinely step and take that 2nd spot. difficult picking a replacement for belch when the blokes behind Goldie are all pretty even
Teams without Goldstein are at a real disadvantage if he continues to score like this, it's not like missing out on a Pendlebury for example when you have maybe 5 other blokes who can fill the void any week, people without him are hemorrhaging ruck points. Stef Martin is looking like he could be that 2nd ruckman by virtue of him picking up 20 disposals per game and not having to contend with Leunberger now.
Good call on Blicavs, playing a fair bit in the backline and picking up a lot of marks and possessions there.
Stef seems to be the one as long as Luey doesn't play. Struggled with Luey in though. With Harris Andrews not doing anything special I wouldn't be surprised to see Luey back sooner rather than later though. We really need Luey to get injured again
As an aside, Goldstein was bloody marvellous for your side yesterday, his last quarter specifically was huge. They were chucking two and even three blokes at him at the ruck contests and he was beating them by himself.
He played against a third man up in about half of all ruck contests for the whole day and still came away with 41 hit outs or something. 20 odd touches. Incredible performance. We'd be a poor side without him
Probably your most important player right now and even at this stage a lock for AA. Seems to have even improved his actual ruck work this year as well. 14 contested possessions, 8 clearances, 6 tackles, love having him in my side racking up the massive scores!
Totally agree. The second half of last year was ominous but he's managed to step up again. Seems to have a bit more agression this year too. He's taking contested marks, tackling hard and following up his own ruckwork, all things he has never really done
For a big fella his aerobic capacity is out of this world too, also is surprisingly very skilled, has clean hands and doesn't look to just get the ball to boot all the time blindly like some other ruckmen are prone in doing. Wouldn't be far off from being in the top 10 best players in the comp let alone the top ruckman right now imo.
Two clear BOGs. Get on him for the brownlow! Read someone saying they got on him at $1001, think it was before the weekend though
Will be at least on 6 votes at this stage, Fyfe clearly the frontrunner, probably has around 8 now.
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