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Traded #41 Jordon Sweet

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Interested in the progress of Jordon. Named as an emergency this week, is there any chance he will go past Tim and become #1 ruck or will he only ever be the backup ruck.
 
weltschmerz said:
Wonder if we can train him as a full back?
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Problem is that we already have a full back who can ruck (Trengove), but Bevo won't even consider him when it comes to team selection. It's frustrating, but it's basically a thing now where we don't respect the Full Back or Ruck positions. Every tall needs to be a swingman, and every ruck needs to be an extra midfielder, at the expense of hitouts. I can't see us having any sustained success using the current model. Jordon looks promising, but he doesn't even get a chance. I honestly don't see why we even drafted him if we don't respect his position in the first place
 

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Virgin Dog said:
Problem is that we already have a full back who can ruck (Trengove), but Bevo won't even consider him when it comes to team selection. It's frustrating, but it's basically a thing now where we don't respect the Full Back or Ruck positions. Every tall needs to be a swingman, and every ruck needs to be an extra midfielder, at the expense of hitouts. I can't see us having any sustained success using the current model. Jordon looks promising, but he doesn't even get a chance. I honestly don't see why we even drafted him if we don't respect his position in the first place
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Absolutely correct on all counts. We needed a crash and bash big man in lots of games. The Brick is unfashionable but he has a real crack. Sweet never got a sniff. Why recruit him then? Why didn’t Young get a game? English was thrown to the wolves with no support.
Now we are seeing how the players really felt having to ruck & stuffing their year. Exit Dunkley, a great kid who had an all Australian year in 2019.


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I don't think he'll be on the list next year, seeing what happened with Lachie Young.
 

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