Ruck Situation

[goDees22]

After all the preseason hype about how Meesen was killing it, training the house down etc, how the hell is Jamar getting a game ahead of him. It seems to me we have obviously just wasted the pick 37 that we traded for him

 

[anti.]

it seems you are correct.

its only round 10 though.

 

[CowboyFromHell]

After all the preseason hype about how Meesen was killing it, training the house down etc, how the hell is Jamar getting a game ahead of him. It seems to me we have obviously just wasted the pick 37 that we traded for him

That's the knee jerk reaction - give him at least a season. Jamar is rubbish, we know this, but Meesen is still progressing (slowly!) down with Sandy. I would have liked to have seen him in the red and blue by now but some things take a bit of time.

 

[CaptainDavey]

I'd be willing to put up with Jamar until 2009 if that meant Meesen would become a fantastic player for us. And that's saying something

 

[davey_magik]

To be fair ruckmen take longer to develop and IIRC Meesen has been injured for a bit this year.

 

[Supermercado]

Interesting to see in the paper over the weekend that Naitanui was rated as being an athletic freak who is still working on his skills around the ground. I hope we don't go for the hype and get stitched up. I don't pretend to know anything about recruiting other than downloading the list of nominated players and laughing at funny names, but given that the top 3 are supposed to be good this year if we finish last does anyone else think that we could try and flog pick 1 to whoever finishes second last for pick 2 and a player or 2nd/3rd round pick? Then we either get the freak ruckman or the big KPP depending on who Freo/Essendon/whoever pick up.

Is this too cavalier thinking? Who knows if we'll even end up last the way we're going - and who would have thought THAT a few weeks back.

 

[malodeez]

natanui will solve all the problems

 

[Headless]

Yeah, Natainui is going to become our next ruckman, full back, centre half back, centre, half forward and full forward.

To hell with it, may as well be the captain/coach and be a one man team.