Bankers and Anchors - Round 3 2016

[kruder]

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Daniel : Enough about his stature. A rolled gold gun and showed it against the best. He's got a Brownlow in him.
Dahlhaus : Manic, creative and relentless.
Roughead : Perhaps not in our best three proper but gee he's tracking nicely in the ruck role. Liked his smarts, tap work and timely aggression.

B:

Umpiring : Kill me now.
Umpiring : No seriously.
Sicily : Possibly the most punchable head in footy.

Stray observation: after the initial shock and despair over Murph's misfortune, what's left is a searing desire to want to play this mob again. One expects Bev and the group agrees. Next time, we overthrow the king.

IMO Roughead didn't deserve a game round 1 and was pretty much the last man standing in the ruck devision. His first 3 weeks have been excellent looks mobile, wants the footy and has shown aggression as you say. My one concern like many is his durability partially if Boyd is the relief ruck. Boyd rucking has been good, its just more of a concern with the impact on the forward line if Roughead goes down and he has to play the remainder of the game in the ruck which was looking a chance in the first quarter on Sunday. Its an interesting one for the match committee.

[bulldogtragic]

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IMO Roughead didn't deserve a game round 1 and was pretty much the last man standing in the ruck devision. His first 3 weeks have been excellent looks mobile, wants the footy and has shown aggression as you say. My one concern like many is his durability partially if Boyd is the relief ruck. Boyd rucking has been good, its just more of a concern with the impact on the forward line if Roughead goes down and he has to play the remainder of the game in the ruck which was looking a chance in the first quarter on Sunday. Its an interesting one for the match committee.

Great point, I forgot to mention it too. If Roughy gets injured we a) have to ruck Boyd all game, bad & b) we lose Boyd as our full forward, also bad. We need another tall forward who can also ruck, which rules Redpath out. So this year it's Campbell. Even a cheap recycle like Bellchambers could be worth a shot next year to take Minson's spot.

[1eyedog]

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Just in regards to Jake I didn't think too deeply about the affect the absence of Crameri is having on him, but I think it is.

[azabob]

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Just in regards to Jake I didn't think too deeply about the affect the absence of Crameri is having on him, but I think it is.

And Dickson also.

[Rocket Science]

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Indeed. With defenders (understandably) hyper-conscious of Stringer, that's where Dickson and Crameri can chime in and slice teams up. A pity about the latter but to state the obvious the sooner Dickson resumes his spot the better, for our sake and Jake's.