Mic up every player and send out headphones to all the members so they can listen in at stoppages to hear Higgins scream "no Preussy **** not there" 45 times a game
Hang on, that's some circular logic going on.
If he's tapping the ball any which way but to our players, he wouldn't and shouldn't be out there. And in general play he was doing a great job, so that isn't it. Preuss did his bit and then some.
In fact he was so good, Chris Scott threw caution to the wind and said "we can't beat him, stand off him inside 50 and use the non-ruckman as an extra mid".
In eleventy billion years of watching football (roughly 3 epochs less than Horace) I have never seen a team strategically not contest the ruck. I would say it is unique in the history of football.
Which is why I say it is on our midfielders - senior players - to get around a second gamer in Preuss and tell him what to do. And they didn't. No ruckman ever expects to be in the position where they go up unopposed. Their entire career is spent training for the exact opposite. If it was Goldy I would have expected him to think it through, but Preuss is entitled to expect his mids to be there to instruct him on what to do in what is a completely unique situation.