We ain't targeting a ruck this trade period is all I've heard re. our intentions this trade period.
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We ain't targeting a ruck this trade period is all I've heard re. our intentions this trade period.
I completely agree. It’s a poor outcome to say the least. We just can’t lay the blame at Powers feet from the outside looking in. If Bevo has demanded a ruck and Sam has failed to deliver then absolutely he has failed. I just don’t think that’s the case. There’s gotta be more to it. End of the day, we’ve failed to bring a ruck in once again and wherever that failure rests is up to the club. For us fans, with the lack of insight and the mixed messages, we’re left frustrated and scratching our heads as we endure yet another year of the same frustrations. I’m as pissed as anyone believe me. I just don’t like casting blame in this situation when I have no idea what is going on internally.
So if the only real team we can't beat due to our ruck stocks is the Demons, the point you've made is exactly right.
Why get upset about the ruck, if the only team it matters against we've got no chance of matching?
Let me qualify that by saying I'm not sure our long term strategy has been great, but hey did we know English wasn't going to be very good in the ruck at this point when we took him with a prized pick?
There's no quick fix. None of those mentioned are that exciting and remember the second best guy Grundy is also struggling.
I still hold that our mids let us down the most. They change their positioning and their role when we're 19 points up, and their mids don't run riot off the back of Jackson's tapwork.
Yes it would be good if we could get a decent ruckman in at a cost that was acceptable to Power and Co.
But I think the sinkhole that was the last 8 or so minutes of the 3rd quarter lays squarely with our mids and their structure, posturing or whatever you want to call it around the centre bounce.
If it was down to Jackson turning the game around then we completely fluked making the grand final. Hell we fluked making the 8 if that was the case. A better ruck helps us but our mids completely dropped the ball.
Jackson got hold of us and a solid second ruck would have helped but our mids went into cruise mode being 19 points up. I dunno what happend. Arrogance? Assume Bevo sent out a message to hold the lines and slow things up, retain possession etc. but we couldn't even get near it to implement anything. Our best accumulator and clearance player went awol.
It's hard to accept that we were simply 'cooked'. It seemed to be a mental lapse.
Tbh I need to watch it back to really know. Live, I only recall our mids being flat footed rather than the ruck dominating.
It’s fair to say our ruck has let us down plenty of times in the past. That’s mostly due to English being completely useless. If he can just get his worst to be at least competitive then we’re a lot better off. Just not sure if we’ll ever see that.
Ladhams wants to go to Sydney.
Ladhams, Hickey, Naismith (inj), Sinclair and McLean a hybrid.
They don’t need all of them…