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Always Right Match Committee Round 23 VS North Melbourne
Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 VS North Melbourne
Genuine question that might be one for track watchers, can we gauge who tends to be the best tap ruck of Smith, Lobb and Darcy? Darcy seems more effective than Lobb when he's gone in there at AFL level, but I wonder how Smith stacks up purely in the ruck duels (no doubt the other two are well ahead of him in other facets of the game).
Smith is averaging 27 hit-outs per game in the twos, which seems pretty solid for a youngster.
Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 VS North Melbourne
Originally posted by lemmon
Genuine question that might be one for track watchers, can we gauge who tends to be the best tap ruck of Smith, Lobb and Darcy? Darcy seems more effective than Lobb when he's gone in there at AFL level, but I wonder how Smith stacks up purely in the ruck duels (no doubt the other two are well ahead of him in other facets of the game).
Smith is averaging 27 hit-outs per game in the twos, which seems pretty solid for a youngster.
Be interesting if we bring in an 18 year old ruckman against Xerri
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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 VS North Melbourne
We will know early tomorrow what we are planning to do without Tim this weekend. If we see Gardner or Lobb working with the midfielders it will likely flag our intention. I'll keep the training report updated tomorrow
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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 VS North Melbourne
Originally posted by GVGjr
We will know early tomorrow what we are planning to do without Tim this weekend. If we see Gardner or Lobb working with the midfielders it will likely flag our intention. I'll keep the training report updated tomorrow
Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 VS North Melbourne
Who rucks when Xerri not rucking?
If we bring in Smith he could take the second ruck with Darcy being the main man. This bloods Smith to an AFL game and less disruptions to other positions. Smith can also sit in the forward half instead of clogging the bench.
Not ideal or I'd would use Buku instead of Smith above.
Busslinger also had a good game against the Dolphins and must be due and I wasn't impressed with Coffield.
If we do pick Buss I don't think we can use Smith two debutants would be too much.
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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 VS North Melbourne
Originally posted by Hotdog60
Who rucks when Xerri not rucking?
If we bring in Smith he could take the second ruck with Darcy being the main man. This bloods Smith to an AFL game and less disruptions to other positions. Smith can also sit in the forward half instead of clogging the bench.
Not ideal or I'd would use Buku instead of Smith above.
Busslinger also had a good game against the Dolphins and must be due and I wasn't impressed with Coffield.
If we do pick Buss I don't think we can use Smith two debutants would be too much.
I am warming to this. I don't think Gardner should be thrown into the ruck
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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 VS North Melbourne
Originally posted by bornadog
I am warming to this. I don't think Gardner should be thrown into the ruck
I can only recall Gards doing one or two ruck work attempts on his return game against Frankston either. I get the suggestion but I don't think Smith is ready and he would certainly be a bit of a liability when he wasn't rucking.
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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 VS North Melbourne
After spending most of my day thinking about it, I’ve settled on Keath in, Darcy into the ruck, Buku forward and chopping out Darcy, and no one even tells Lobb that Tim isn’t playing.
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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 VS North Melbourne
Lobb to the ruck, Keath to CHB.
If we don't even try to give decent service to our midfielders or at least curtail the service on offer from Xerri this week we are going to be proper ****ed by Norf's mids and lose.
It's genuinely the one single area on the ground I'm worried about. We've shown at different times this season we can make a Keath and Jones combo work really well. Not sure why we'd ignore that and dick around with a non-competitive novice ruck just in case Lobb loses backline form.
We won't have to worry about anything in terms of a future scenario if we don't win.
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