Totally agree. Ladhams has improved a lot over his early games and shown a lot but the Hick is much cagier against the big dogs like Gawn.No not against him, just him replacing Hickey permanently just yet. On what I have seen so far in a couple of games I think Hickey is the better of the two options when fit. IMO Ladhams is obviously going to be the ruck in the future so we are on the same page, but Hickey has been pretty good for the last season and a bit.
I wonder when Hick is fit whether Ladhams stays as third tall. I had originally thought that but both McLean and McDonald have been going OK so now I don't know. Not sure if his positional work would be good enough. I hope they work on that too - he has the talent.