Bruce: "I've never seen a ruckman do things like that"

If English lives up to the pre-season hype, giddy the **** up!

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Originally Posted by Bulldog4life

Plough was also the first coach to do the warm up with footballs on the field before a match.

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Correct, and that idiot at the AFL (Hocking), tried to stop it last season, but the coaches complained

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Originally Posted by Bulldog4life

Plough was also the first coach to do the warm up with footballs on the field before a match.

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He also had Jose Romero running laps of the ground before a game to warm up. Most coaches thought he was crazy "you'll wear him out. He will be tired out before the end of the game.

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Originally Posted by comrade

If English lives up to the pre-season hype, giddy the **** up!

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He's well ahead of where you expect a ruckman's development to be.
I was very heartened by the improvement in his marking game from the start to the end of the season last year.

I think we'll still lose hit-outs most weeks but what he offers around the ground will more than make up for it.

Crazy to think we got Tim in a premiership year. As a sample of recent premiership clubs and their first rounders:

2014: Hawks traded First Rounder for Jono O'Rourke
2015: Hawks drafted Kieran Lovell with First Rounder
2016: Dogs drafted Tim English with First Rounder
2017: Richmond drafted Jack Higgins with First Rounder