I have grown up barracking for the cats and, through thick and thin we always seemed to have good, or at worst, serviceable ruckmen.
Farmer, Newman, Hampshire, Flanagan, Barnes, Bourke, King, Otto, even Blake. (apologies if I missed someone)
What happened? Despite all our ups and downs we always seemed to have a reliable ruckman who got pencilled in early on Thursday night.
Not any more.
Did Scott, Wells and co get seduced by the third man up concept and put all eggs in the wrong basket or is it just that they did not place value on the position per se.
Most of our ruck picks in recent times have been pretty much duds, rejects, or at the very least, flakey.
Farmer, Newman, Hampshire, Flanagan, Barnes, Bourke, King, Otto, even Blake. (apologies if I missed someone)
What happened? Despite all our ups and downs we always seemed to have a reliable ruckman who got pencilled in early on Thursday night.
Not any more.
Did Scott, Wells and co get seduced by the third man up concept and put all eggs in the wrong basket or is it just that they did not place value on the position per se.
Most of our ruck picks in recent times have been pretty much duds, rejects, or at the very least, flakey.
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