Blue Sombrero wrote:
cortez wrote:
For me losing Jacobs still hurts as well. I was pissed off at the time and still am. Our ruck stocks now consist of an injury prone Krooz, and second class injury prone cast offs.
F#$k me, I don't pretend to be any great judge of talent, but if the club couldn't see the potential Jacobs had... The club should have fought tooth and nail to keep him.
Phillips goes OK and yes, he has been injured but he needs a run at this level to develop. We had two or three games won because of the hitouts to advantage on the weekend and the Geelong Scott bemoaned the lack of a tap ruckman while Sydney's Kennedy was running riot as a result of their ruck dominance.
Maybe Philips will end up at Geelong if he doesn't get an opportunity here. Like Jacobs, who spent all his time watching in the VFL Warnock and Kreuzer. Kreuzer I could understand and maybe Jacobs could too but Warnock?
Issue too was Warnock had a great year too and a brilliant final as well. Jacobs was on the rookie list still, or had just come off it so we underrated his value. So that blinded us and we made a blunder in hindsight but they were the circumstances at the time. He was our no.4 ruck but in reality our no.2.
Not sure any game was won last week due to hitouts to advantage. They could've had a tap ruck and Kennedy still could've destroyed them.
You can only play one ruck. You can't play another because you want to keep him. Phillips hitouts to advantage last week was 25%. We won the hitouts 56 to about 15 but lost the clearances. GWS lost the tapouts 47-4 but won the clearances. Let's not overrate tapouts. We were too tall and slow enough last week so we don't want to be playing another ruckman for the sake of a few tapouts. Phillips only plays if Kreuzer is out. Much better letting Kreuzer run around for 80% of the game and Casboult the other 20%. History has shown us many time we have got so much better value.
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