ryan2000 wrote:
budzy wrote:
Ratts has me worried after his remark last night saying he thought is was a terrific move to put Setanta in the ruck last week. Shocking move IMO. Leave him to develop as our full back.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, i'm gonna have to Disagre.
I loved this move and it's the only decent thing Pagan has done all bloody year.
In fact, its the ONLY decent thing pagan has done for a long time.
Kennedy is never gonna be a ruckman. He has no leap and is 195cm.
I'd rather just let him develop as a Full Forward/CHF rather than confuse the poor kid.
Setanta is 199cm and has a leap that will see him being able to go with the 200+cm ruckman.
See this is why i'd just play Aisakie now. We want him to develop as a ruckman and we have just lost our 2nd & 3rd back up ruckmen. Why not play him?
And don't give me this 'he's not ready' bullshit. PLAY HIM and find out. If he hasn't done anything in a couple of games THEN you can tell me if he's ready or not.
:sigh:
First of all, Bluebern reported from one of his BlueSuits functions last year that JK was measured at 198cm. Who knows, maybe he is 199-200cm by now. Apparantly Wayne Hughes said then that JK could well turn out to be a ruckman.
Secondly, JK was reportedly leaping around in the ruck yesterday at Ballarat outperforming our other young rucks.
Thirdly, how is JK going to develop as a CHF when the Supercoach DP has pegged his man SuperLance as our shining light in that position.
If SuperLance is persisted with at CHF then JK’s only position IMO is as a tall FP relief ruckman (& poor young Harts will keep rotting away at Cramer St.)
Fourthly, Aisake is learning & progressing beautifully. He’s learning the art at a higher level now than last year which is great for him. Don’t be in such a rush for him. His time will come.
Fifthly we haven’t got a full back. Setanta had initially progressed enough in that role to suggest he had a real future as a dominant fullback. Just ask Jono Brown.
Sixthly, Ackland is being paid a frontliners salary so he should be made to work his arse of as our #1 ruckman by putting his body on the line and contesting and making life extremely difficult for the oppositions rucks.
Fancy taking away a potentially A grade fullback in Setanta and putting him in the ruck just to cover Acklands lazy arse!! Bullshit decision by whoever made it and a copout!!!
I really hope Ratten didn’t mean what he said.
He's still listed as 195cm on the updated Website. I don't know where that 198cm thing come from.
All i'm saying is by playing Aisakie, it would free up Setanta to go down as Full Back and we could leave Kennedy up forward.
At the end of the day, Setanta is doing a much better job than Kennedy did and i would prefer Kennedy to play as the KP we drafted him for.
And Setanta was pretty soundly beaten as a Full Back in his past couple of games so the move has rejuvinated him, which was just what he needed.
The 1st half in the Collingwood game, Setanta Killed Fraser. Fraser got the better of him in the 2nd half and destroyed Ackland, but i thought Setanta played some of his best football for the year in that 1st half.
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