Having been recruited for precisely that purpose. And the preseason reports we got from before he was injured this year was that the midfield were loving his tap work.
He hasn't played through injury, not selection. Last year they were trying very hard to get him back in before our finals run.
He has shown nothing yet. All talk with regards to preseasons.
A few teams seemed to be interested in Flynn/Briggs both still have time to improve. I thought both were reasonable last year, including as forwards.
Yeah I agree. When Hogan is out is opens up an opportunity for one of them to play duel ruck.
Training and preseason + reports from the club are legitimately all we have to go off...and they all point to him being the no 1 choice.
I don't recall that he was recruited/earmarked for the #1 ruck spot - more that he's there to add extra depth in that position and it's up to him to fight it out with the other contenders.
Yeah doi!
Interesting. Who you leaving out to play two Rucks? No Brander/Ricca? Losing Bruhn in the mid?
No Brander
Riccardi had fwd pressure issues? Which is why he supposedly couldn’t get a spot.
Brander/Ricca I wouldn't have any issues leaving out unless we see some development from them that warrants playing them over Flynn, Flynn has shown flashes of being a good forward while also being more then just a pinch hit ruckmen.
What do you mean waste of midfield group? Our midfield was one of the top teams in the competition for contested ball and clearances last year I'm not sure how thats anything but a successful year for that positional group. Many point to Preuss being a better tap ruckmen then Briggs but I'm not sure if that's exactly true, sure he's a bit taller but he's defintely worse then Briggs around the contest who is a much better tackler (one of the best for ruckmen) while also having really good follow up work in the contest. I think they each of their pros and cons and I don't think it's fair to say either of them is notably better then the other, I'd like to give Briggs a go he showed last year that he can play really well and that was only his first year playing but would understand if Preuss is clearly better in preseason then he should get the nod for Round 1.
As listed but with stone replacing cpt greene
I think generally the board views Stone as the likely Toby replacement for the first 5 weeks and then how well he plays in that opportunity will give us a good scope for how much time he's going to play this year. We probably all agree on around 18 players but it's those last few spots to fill in where most of the debate is, although the side is young it's also pretty established at this point with most of the conversation being around the ruck/3rd tall up fwd and maybe a couple spots on the bench.
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