Well Ruck Me.

[Mofra]

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Love reading that about at least one of our players. Aside from Cordy, who has the inner mongrel?

Libba, definitely.

[Axe Man]

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Cordy is in his own class. Although Gowers looks like he might have that streak in him, early days. Same with Young at both levels, but early days too. Hopefully Dunkley adds complete mongrel to that hulking frame.

Lewis? Couldn't disagree more, at times he looks to avoid body contact. Happy to give him a pass as he's still young and skinny but he needs to get it out of his game as he has most of the tools to be a very good player.

[bulldogtragic]

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Lewis? Couldn't disagree more, at times he looks to avoid body contact. Happy to give him a pass as he's still young and skinny but he needs to get it out of his game as he has most of the tools to be a very good player.

In contests, sure. I could've been clearer. When there's a 'mallee' or the need to jump in to fly the flag for a team mate, he's almost first in. He doesn't skirt the edges like some do.

[Axe Man]

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In contests, sure. I could've been clearer. When there's a 'mallee' or the need to jump in to fly the flag for a team mate, he's almost first in. He doesn't skirt the edges like some do.

Fair enough. I would prefer he shows toughness in actual contests than largely pointless push and shove battles.

[bulldogtragic]

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Seems we might have some talks about rucks.

Sweet is raw, but promising. I’m a fan in the medium term.
English is a very good second ruck, tall forward. Let’s stick to this.
Martin is getting injured, who knows for how long, but it didn’t look great. Hopefully we can get him cherry ripe again.

Martin is 35 come November this year. Do we hitch to him again, or look to do something similar with a veteran elsewhere? I ask as there aren’t a lot of 35yo ruckman that missed a decent chunk of footy in their 34th year on earth.

[Dry Rot]

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We need to unearth another Hickey at season's end. Has been terrific at the Swans, and totally bog ordinary before that.

[Vred]

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Seems we might have some talks about rucks.

Sweet is raw, but promising. I’m a fan in the medium term.
English is a very good second ruck, tall forward. Let’s stick to this.
Martin is getting injured, who knows for how long, but it didn’t look great. Hopefully we can get him cherry ripe again.

Martin is 35 come November this year. Do we hitch to him again, or look to do something similar with a veteran elsewhere? I ask as there aren’t a lot of 35yo ruckman that missed a decent chunk of footy in their 34th year on earth.

I know Martin has a trigger in his contract for a second year IF he met certain benchmarks with us this season, who knows where he currently sits with that with all the injuries, hopefully this AC-Joint injury isn't toooo bad, but as said elsewhere, we need to start using him like Mummy, few games, then swap him for Sweet, only bring him in for the big occasions.

[Mofra]

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Seems we might have some talks about rucks.

Sweet is raw, but promising. I’m a fan in the medium term.
English is a very good second ruck, tall forward. Let’s stick to this.
Martin is getting injured, who knows for how long, but it didn’t look great. Hopefully we can get him cherry ripe again.

Martin is 35 come November this year. Do we hitch to him again, or look to do something similar with a veteran elsewhere? I ask as there aren’t a lot of 35yo ruckman that missed a decent chunk of footy in their 34th year on earth.

Martin to the rookie list, becomes our ruck coach.
I definitely want another mature ruck so we can leave English as the no 2 ruck/forward. Given the ruck depth woes of St Kilda, Essendon and Gold Coast the market may be hot for rucks this year.

I expect Mason Cox to get a ruck gig somewhere, that's one. He doesn't seem a Bevo type though as he's a tap ruckman first and just doesn't have game sense.

I like what I've seen of Darcy Fort, but if you're 200cm+ and can't get a game at Geelong something must be going on behind the scenes.
Archie Smith is an RFA and I've liked a few Bellenden signs as well (he's OOC).

[Grantysghost]

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Martin to the rookie list, becomes our ruck coach.
I definitely want another mature ruck so we can leave English as the no 2 ruck/forward. Given the ruck depth woes of St Kilda, Essendon and Gold Coast the market may be hot for rucks this year.

I expect Mason Cox to get a ruck gig somewhere, that's one. He doesn't seem a Bevo type though as he's a tap ruckman first and just doesn't have game sense.

I like what I've seen of Darcy Fort, but if you're 200cm+ and can't get a game at Geelong something must be going on behind the scenes.

Callum Sinclair? I don't know much about him, and he will be 32 next season but seems on the outer at the Swans.
My memory of him is he's pretty solid, might be a more seasoned version of Sweet.

[Ozza]

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Geez I thought English did well at getting behind the ball and helping the defenders in the second half. Unfortunately he's not quite there in the middle - but we need him in there over the next few weeks.

[Mofra]

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Callum Sinclair? I don't know much about him, and he will be 32 next season but seems on the outer at the Swans.
My memory of him is he's pretty solid, might be a more seasoned version of Sweet.

Sinclair from West Coast originally?
I only remember him a couple of years ago when he seemed a very competant no 2 ruck. I expect Sydney want to keep him

[Happy Days]

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Sinclair is a fine third tall forward and a full on horrible ruck. No thanks.

[bulldogtragic]

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Geez I thought English did well at getting behind the ball and helping the defenders in the second half. Unfortunately he's not quite there in the middle - but we need him in there over the next few weeks.

He did, it’s not a knock on him. His marking up forward especially, and around the ground his a great asset for the team. My comment was I think in an ideal world he’s the most dangerous when he’s the second ruck and allowed the freedom to hurt opponents or help around the ground. I love what he’s done this year with this role. My preference is this continues and we have a couple of Number 1 ruck options next year. Sweet and I’m unsure whether the other is Martin right now.

[Grantysghost]

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Sinclair from West Coast originally?
I only remember him a couple of years ago when he seemed a very competant no 2 ruck. I expect Sydney want to keep him

Yes that's the one. He's been in and out of the side. Only played the 4 games and was dropped again this week after a recall for the Carlton game. Hickey was back from injury too but they preferred the young guy Joel Amartey (who looks a ripping contested mark) doing the second ruck / forward role.

[Grantysghost]

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Sinclair is a fine third tall forward and a full on horrible ruck. No thanks.

Ha - ta. I don't know much about him just have vague memories of him being "solid". But that's pretty unequivocal.