Pykie
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North Melbourne - North 2007 Player Sponsor
North Melbourne - 2013 Daw, Black and Gibson Player Sponsorship
Not really.
I've long been of the opinion that ruck is far and away the least important position on the ground. Makes sense that this is notionally North's biggest position of depth, whilst you are currently winless. Clubs seem to be fairly reluctant to give up capital for rucks, and as I've said above, now more than ever the league is trending towards playing one genuine ruck, and then having a mobile/undersized forward as a chop out. You can get 80-85% of Goldstein for maybe a third of the cost, and give up far, far less draft capital than North will want for him. North have proven it themselves this year.
Good luck finding another 21 year old that's 208cm and 117kg's.