Harry McKay Knee Has some knee soreness out of Round 6: is a test to play this week. (Update: 26 April)

Correct Bondi. At the point of contact, only one player was looking at the ball. Pretty average IMHO. Pitto was giving him a lesson and his response was to take his opponent out.

Luke Hodge says ruckmen should have their eyes on the ball when going up for a contest.

Talking with Gerard Whateley this morning, “Razor” Ray Chamberlain broke down when an umpire would pay a free kick for blocking in the ruck.


“Marking and rucking have the same overarching philosophy, which is that a player whose prime objective is to contest the football will be allowed to do so,” Chamberlain told SEN's Whateley.

“If just one ruckman puts out an arm, then it's a block and free kick. When they both do it, nothing to see here.”

However, four-time premiership player Hodge did not think this addressed the issue of ruckmen focusing on their opposition over the ball.

Hodge called into the program to question Chamberlain on his comparison of rucking to a marking contest.

“If you’ve got a ruckman who’s standing there with eyes on the ball, and the opposition is just running straight at him with his knee up, and that poor ruckman cops an injury and is out for three months, there’s gotta be a few things we need to look at, and say ‘how’s that allowed?’” Hodge said.

“You’ve gotta at least watch the ball.”

Carlton ruckman Marc Pittonet is set to miss up to three months with a PCL injury in his knee, after a ruck collision with Fremantle’s Sean Darcy, whose eyes were on his opponent, rather than the ball.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/04/27/hodge-unsatisfied-with-chamberlains-ruling-on-rucks/

OK, that doesn't help Pitto now, but what is the AFL going to do about Darcy's violent action?

Does Michael Christian know the rules?

Pitto was giving him a bath so Darcy resorted to violence. Looks the same build as a Balme. Must be related.

And some people are advocating bringing in Alex Mirkov to debut against Todd Goldstein this week - Goldstein would make it his first order of business to put Mirkov out of commission in the first contest - it would be a slaughter.

That's a slur on Todd Goldstein, an illogical argument and complete BS to boot.

So it's perfectly fine if Goldy does this to TDK, Silvagni, Young or whomever they decide to put into the 2nd ruck?

I'm absolutely advocating to play Mirkov. That's what he does - he's a ruck. Lets find out what he can do.

CARLTON defender Mitch McGovern has experienced a re-aggravation of his hamstring injury and will remain sidelined for an extended period of time.

McGovern underwent scans this morning after experiencing discomfort during training.

For some context on the previous two posts, he did his hamstring a month ago, not yesterday.

BREAKING: Mitch McGovern has experienced a re-aggravation of his hamstring injury & will remain sidelined for an extended period of time. McGovern underwent scans this morning, a timeline of recovery to be known next week once he is further assessed.

Gov has redone his hamstring
Wont be seeing him anytime soon

As good as he is and as much as we need him his career is over. Always had issues with hamstrings. He missed 2017 PF/GF with Adelaide for this reason.

Cut your losses ad let him go.

We traded for an injury prone player.
We can't rely on Gov.

I'm guessing Pitto and Gov will be conditioned for the run to the Finals...no choice really.

So who is our intercept mark? I think Kemp is the only one left, and he's sitting in the twos. FMD.

Kemp not only sitting in the twos, but playing in the forward line. Be interesting to see where he lines up in the vfl tomorrow.