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If we had gawn we win the flag. So yes lacking a great ruck cost us a flag. Fact is fact. However lacking lance franklin also cost us a flag.The elite rucks in the AFL are Gawn, Grundy and Natanui (when fit). No flags between them...
I would love us to have a ruckman i
of that caliber but we don’t and they don’t grow on trees like inside mids. It’s disingenuous to say the lack of one cost us a flag. More like the loss of Duncan and Hawkins in the PF and a s**t performance in the QF cost us a flag.
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What would have been your solution?
It's Wells who makes the final decisions on the names we call out - maybe he doesn't want any rucks on our list...
Pick a kid that athletically will be able to develop into the role.
Perhaps we now look at paying out a player early and look at the mid season draft...
In the pre-Scott Wells years Geelong recruited an 18 year old (genuine) ruck every 2-3 years which is probably on the competition average. Since 2010 there have been zero.It's Wells who makes the final decisions on the names we call out - maybe he doesn't want any rucks on our list...
They won't have to ruck all year. The chances of both Fort and Stanley both being out all year are minimal
In the pre-Scott Wells years Geelong recruited an 18 year old (genuine) ruck every 2-3 years which is probably on the competition average. Since 2010 there have been zero.
We have Stanley (200cm) and Fort (205cm), if they BOTH go down, which is unlikely, we still have Jenkins and Esava, and also SDK if things get really desperate. That's more than enough depth. It seems the club don't subscribe to having a pure ruck, which I agree is a good approach. Not much point having a bloke getting 30 hit outs every week and doing literally nothing else (see Dawson Simpson, Andrew Phillips, et al).
You're not getting a Gawn, Grundy, Witts, Goldstein in the rookie draft.
Ruck isnt why we lost the prelim cos blitz played on a wing. Not in the ruck.
There are 3 finals we need to win. Not one. Blitz can maybe hold his own aganst another mediocre ruck for a half. Not 6 halves.
From what i am hearing HT has got himself in ripping nick for the start of pre-season next week.I think Harry will be in and out either way. I think Hendos form this year was best 25 but structure wise its hard to play all the talls-he is insurance for Stanley..injury or bad Stanley and Blitz and Sav will share the ruck (or Blitz and Fort) and Hendo will go to FB while SDK develops in the 2s. Geez we need to draft a good ruck next year though.
Why would stanley go?
Called it.Anyone see us rookieing Lachie Henderson?
Injury prone is a bit of a stretch. I think he only missed 1 or 2 games this year. And a couple last year.He will be 30 next year and he is injury prone. I wouldnt bank on himbeing around long.
Its not really. Stanley is injury prone and Fort is crap.
Sav is made for R2 he doesnt have the tank for the R1 role. Jenkins has never played that role and SDK would get snapped in half at thispoint.
Blitz is our only backup for Stanley who is capable and who has played that role before.
In the pre-Scott Wells years Geelong recruited an 18 year old (genuine) ruck every 2-3 years which is probably on the competition average. Since 2010 there have been zero.
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There's nothing we could have done in the national or rookie drafts this year to solve our ruck depth issues in 2020. Even if we picked up a mature state league player, or any one of the hacks that got delisted from an AFL list, none of them would have been a better option than Stanley/Fort anyway.
You suggest picking up a young developing ruck, give me a name. I didn't see any promising ruckman at the champs this year, I don't even think Jackson will make it. The only guy that looked like a competitor was Lachlan Burrows from SA but he's only 195cm.
Clubs can still add rookies up until the start of the season, and there's always the mid-season draft too. He's just gotta keep going.So Sokol missed out, really surprising, 24 and averaged 3 goals per game in the WAFL definitely would have been worth a punt as a mature ager, feel for him, not much else he could have done.
If we had gawn we win the flag. So yes lacking a great ruck cost us a flag. Fact is fact. However lacking lance franklin also cost us a flag.
What the hell sack Wells what a load of crap what is he thinking bringing Hendo back sack him just sack him now
So Sokol missed out, really surprising, 24 and averaged 3 goals per game in the WAFL definitely would have been worth a punt as a mature ager, feel for him, not much else he could have done.
Lacking Tom Hawkins may well have cost us a flag.
hawkins and duncan (and clark) and we might be an extra 2-3 goals in front at half time which might be enough. sigh...