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

    If English lives up to the pre-season hype, giddy the **** up!
    Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog4life View Post
    Plough was also the first coach to do the warm up with footballs on the field before a match.
    Correct, and that idiot at the AFL (Hocking), tried to stop it last season, but the coaches complained
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    Re: Bruce: "I've never seen a ruckman do things like that"

    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog4life View Post
    Plough was also the first coach to do the warm up with footballs on the field before a match.
    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.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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

    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    If English lives up to the pre-season hype, giddy the **** up!
    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.
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    Re: Bruce: "I've never seen a ruckman do things like that"

    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
    Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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