Who plays 2nd ruck?

[Mantis]

With Hannan out who gets the call up when Tim needs a spell?

* Tried to add a poll, but my computer shat itself so it didn't work.

[Mofra]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

I'm worried it will be TOB off an interrupted pre-season, leaving Gards one-out as the lone tall in defence.
I'm even more concerned we'll use Bont.

[Mantis]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

I'm concerned it will be Naughton.. or Bont.. or Dunkley.. or ??

How the *!*!*!*! are we in such a position whereby with only minimal injuries we have no viable option to play as a 2nd ruck bar someone who shouldn't or can't? What a shit show!

[Grantysghost]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

with hannan out who gets the call up when tim needs a spell?

* tried to add a poll, but my computer shat itself so it didn't work.

tob.

[Happy Days]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

Jamarra?

None of these options are going to work, so maybe we just pick the one that hurts us the least.

[Grantysghost]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

Jamarra?

None of these options are going to work, so maybe we just pick the one that hurts us the least.

Blasphemy!

[Happy Days]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

Man these ideas ALL suck what can we do. I’m assuming it’ll be Dunkley but as a centre square option that has bad news written all over it.

[mjp]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

If English is injured then Gardner will simply have to do it.

And Naughton wil simply have to go back to play on Lynch.

This is an actual scenario we have created for ourselves.

[MrMahatma]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

Maybe we'll just go with no ruckman in F50 stoppages... give Tim a rest then.

[Happy Days]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

Maybe we'll just go with no ruckman in F50 stoppages... give Tim a rest then.

We’ve been doing this already.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

It's genuinely ridiculous we put ourselves in this position.

We have a contending team with 2 obvious areas of concern (Ruck and KPD) and address neither. In fact, both actually (somehow) get worse with Martin done and Young leaving.

As for what we'll do, I expect a half forward to roll up to the stoppage (i.e. a mid such as Smith) and Bont/Dunkley/Macrae to share ruck duties.

Likely we then see English not ruck in our forward half for large periods of the game to conserve energy.

[Missing Dog]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

Surely Schache comes into the 22 with a late change .

[hujsh]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

It's genuinely ridiculous we put ourselves in this position.

We have a contending team with 2 obvious areas of concern (Ruck and KPD) and address neither. In fact, both actually (somehow) get worse with Martin done and Young leaving.

As for what we'll do, I expect a half forward to roll up to the stoppage (i.e. a mid such as Smith) and Bont/Dunkley/Macrae to share ruck duties.

Likely we then see English not ruck in our forward half for large periods of the game to conserve energy.

Apparently we did chase at least one ruck (Soldo) we just weren't successful in doing so.

[Mofra]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

It's genuinely ridiculous we put ourselves in this position.

We have a contending team with 2 obvious areas of concern (Ruck and KPD) and address neither. In fact, both actually (somehow) get worse with Martin done and Young leaving.

As for what we'll do, I expect a half forward to roll up to the stoppage (i.e. a mid such as Smith) and Bont/Dunkley/Macrae to share ruck duties.

Likely we then see English not ruck in our forward half for large periods of the game to conserve energy.

Unpopular opinion - as much as I wanted us to get a ruck and KPD last year, I'd rather have TOB on the list than Lewie Young.

[Grantysghost]

Re: Who plays 2nd ruck?

Unpopular opinion - as much as I wanted us to get a ruck and KPD last year, I'd rather have TOB on the list than Lewie Young.

Popular with me.