Young Ruckman

[Bluegene]

Which of these gun young ruckman would you want at your club if you had a choice?

 

[Merv]

No contest.

 

[Big Tezza]

Leuenberger.

 

[parrot]

Hampson is going to the best ruck of the 2006 draft. A fantastic pick by Hughes.

 

[The Zebra]

Hmmmm, Hamish put the score on the board big time this year and still has plenty in him.. A running ruck with his footskills and ability as a forward is pretty rare. Needs to improve his tap work a bit yet though.

However the Berger is going to be ****ing special.

Woud still be the early bet to be the best over his career didn't how he went at 19.

But I'm a North man, so McIntosh.

The others don't come close (but haven't see enough of Kruezer yet)

 

[didaka]

Hampson is going to the best ruck of the 2006 draft. A fantastic pick by Hughes.

.........

I'm actually embaressed for you.

 

[Warwick]

Renouf will be better than Hampson.

Easily.

 

[parrot]

Renouf will be better than Hampson.

Easily.

lol. Not even close. Hampson has about 3-4x the talent level of Renouf, easily. Hampson was a recruiting masterstroke. As good as the Berger is, Hampson will be even better. Hampson is closer to the 203cm mark now, and his speed and athleticism are extreme, and his leap off-the-scale. He was considered a "risk" in the draft because of his limited football background, but his development is progressing way ahead of schedule. With Hampson, Kruezer, and Aisake, the Blues have the most talented developing rucks in the AFL now. Still an enormous amount of development work required obviously, but the potential is massive.

 

[gandaal]

ROFL at this thread.

Hamish McIntosh is the only real choice in this thread because he's the only player to really prove himself as a quality long term AFL ruckman.

 

[thebigboy]

McIntosh has runs on the board so far. Leunberger is gunna be a freak though.

Any of those 2 will be fine by me

 

[Bluegene]

What has Leunberger actually even done..Nothing, on potential probably Berger.. However McIntosh clearly has the runs on the board and should be #1

 

[Souup]

What has Leunberger actually even done..Nothing, on potential probably Berger.. However McIntosh clearly has the runs on the board and should be #1

But you voted Shaun Hampson

 

[didaka]

What ever the deal, that list is full of quality young players.

Think the strength in the ruck in the competition may be at it's all time best in the next few years. And there's plenty of talented young rucks not on that list.

 

[Warwick]

lol. Not even close. Hampson has about 3-4x the talent level of Renouf, easily. Hampson was a recruiting masterstroke. As good as the Berger is, Hampson will be even better. Hampson is closer to the 203cm mark now, and his speed and athleticism are extreme, and his leap off-the-scale. He was considered a "risk" in the draft because of his limited football background, but his development is progressing way ahead of schedule. With Hampson, Kruezer, and Aisake, the Blues have the most talented developing rucks in the AFL now. Still an enormous amount of development work required obviously, but the potential is massive.

But you haven't seen Renouf play.

Not that it has stopped you in the past.

I don't need to argue the Leuenberger-Hampson duel. Quietly confident on our side of the fence.

 

[dutchy12]

It astounds me how the Blues stuffed up another #1 pick in drafting Gibbs when obtaining Leunberger should have been their biggest priority. Clearly the drafting of Kruzuer this year was a knee jerk reaction as none of the Cartlon coaching staff must rate their ruck talent. By the end of next year we will see why many recruiters rated Kruzer more so in the 5-10 range rather than the media derived "#1 pick"

 

[gandaal]

It astounds me how the Blues stuffed up another #1 pick in drafting Gibbs when obtaining Leunberger should have been their biggest priority. Clearly the drafting of Kruzuer this year was a knee jerk reaction as none of the Cartlon coaching staff must rate their ruck talent. By the end of next year we will see why many recruiters rated Kruzer more so in the 5-10 range rather than the media derived "#1 pick"

So what are your AFL recruiting credentials that make you feel like you can make those kind of statements?

 

[parrot]

.I don't need to argue the Leuenberger-Hampson duel. Quietly confident on our side of the fence.

I would have agreed with you 12 months ago, but not now. The Blues have landed an extreme talent.

 

[Merv]

Essendon played carlton like a deck of cards.

carlton were keen on Jetta and Hampson.

Essendon put a well placed, don't ask, rumour out that they would be picking Hampson with our second pick.

We had no intention of taking a ruckman as we had targeted midfielders as our priority, after the obvious choice of Gumbleton.

Jetta, thanks blues, Davey, Houli and Reimers, all mids....

carlton fell for it and picked Hampson, leaving us Jetta.

what's that saying i keep hearing all the time....ummm, oh that's it, huge laughs

 

[THE_GUN]

Hampson is going to the best ruck of the 2006 draft. A fantastic pick by Hughes.

nah............. berger by a mile

 

[Bluegene]

Essendon played carlton like a deck of cards.

carlton were keen on Jetta and Hampson.

Essendon put a well placed, don't ask, rumour out that they would be picking Hampson with our second pick.

We had no intention of taking a ruckman as we had targeted midfielders as our priority, after the obvious choice of Gumbleton.

Jetta, thanks blues, Davey, Houli and Reimers, all mids....

carlton fell for it and picked Hampson, leaving us Jetta.

what's that saying i keep hearing all the time....ummm, oh that's it, huge laughs

And what exactly has Jetta done? We took Grigg who had a better first season than Jetta..

 

[Merv]

And what exactly has Jetta done? We took Grigg who had a better first season than Jetta..

Jetta has done little apart from show a few promising signs in the seniors early in the year and from there was injured most of the year.

Thing is we could of had Grigg if we wanted him as you drafted him after Jetta.

Don't get me wrong, i like Grigg and think he will be a good footballer but Hampson is being rated by carlton supporters as a superstar before he has done a thing.

Hughes was played like a deck of cards.

 

[Bluegene]

Jetta has done little apart from show a few promising signs in the seniors early in the year and from there was injured most of the year.

Thing is we could of had Grigg if we wanted him as you drafted him after Jetta.

Don't get me wrong, i like Grigg and think he will be a good footballer but Hampson is being rated by carlton supporters as a superstar before he has done a thing.

Hughes was played like a deck of cards.

Just like Collingwood were supposedly played when they took Thomas ahead of Ellis?

 

[Silvagnis]

Davey is a midfielder now?

If Davey is a midfielder, then Eddie Betts is Daniel Kerr after comparing how many first possessions and clearances Davey and Betts had in 2007. And Nerv thinks we overrate Hampson when Essendon fans rate Davey a midfielder and a potential gun.

LOL.

We passed on Davey four times.

McIntosh will be the best young ruck in the AFL until Naitanui is drafted this year.

There are a million Jettas in every draft, but there aren't that many big men in every draft who have the potential of Hampson and Kreuzer and run like midfielders.

Bombers picked Bellchambers in the PSD last year, so they definitely weren't after a ruck.

 

[Philhawk]

HMac and the Burger are so far ahead of the rest at this stage, it's not funny.

McIntosh
Leuenberger

Warnock (though he's still going to be an excellent prospect)




Kreuzer

Hampson

 

[Merv]

Davey is a midfielder now?

If Davey is a midfielder, then Eddie Betts is Daniel Kerr after comparing how many first possessions and clearances Davey and Betts had in 2007. And Nerv thinks we overrate Hampson when Essendon fans rate Davey a midfielder and a potential gun.

LOL.

We passed on Davey four times.

McIntosh will be the best young ruck in the AFL until Naitanui is drafted this year.

There are a million Jettas in every draft, but there aren't that many big men in every draft who have the potential of Hampson and Kreuzer and run like midfielders.

Bombers picked Bellchambers in the PSD last year, so they definitely weren't after a ruck.

Davey played midfield is SA and was drafted as a midfielder, yes.

Many clubs passed on Davey many times, but of course that can be said for how many players that have gone on and been top class footballers?

There are not a million Jettas in every draft at all.

Yes we picked Bellchambers last year but of course we are talking about the year before that where as i have previously stated we purposely targeted mids, and played the carlton football club like a deck of cards.