bondiblue wrote:
I'm from the school of having to bonafide 2 mobile ruckmen.
I'm not keen on pseudo ruckmen against bonafide ruckmen (I thought we saw the end of them with Ackland, Cloke, McLean gone....then we had 4 200cm ruckmen).
I don't like the idea of our No 1 ruckman getting injured and having to rely on a KPF to do the ruckwork normally expected of a ruckman...may as well hand over the keys to the oppositions midfield when that happens.
You can't have 2 tall KP in backline and 2 KP tall in forwardline and one ruckman. Suicide imo.
I'm not in love with Hampson, but having seen the replay a coupla times I was most impressed with his effort to get to a contest when the ball didn't carrry to where he was stationed.
You've got to look at those situations and ask if any of our KPF's or ruckmen would have got to those contests and seriously couldn't see our other ruckmen attack the opportunities Hampson did. I just wish he didn' have such hard hands and kicked straight.
Hence no to Betts for Hampson for me.
Understand BB but it would be Warnock v Jacobs and Rowe v Jenkins. Where's the harm? You also can't pick a side "in case of injury". We need to be effective across our entire 22.
The game is also now having less and less stoppages caused by the sliding rule and the umpires throwing the ball up quickly around the ground. In some cases we are having as few as 3-4 ball ups a qtr.
The key point for me is carrying a player that has little effect. There can be a huge advantage having another midfielder. More rotations which is vital.
If we had Cox & NicNat I would totally agree with you but we don't.
When Kruezer comes back I can see he and Warnock being given a fair run together. My main concern is Hampson being made into a forward. Will never happen and I believe his ruckwork is suffering because of it.
With Waite back it complicates it further. A fwd line of Waite, Rowe/Casboult & Kruezer surrounded by Judd, Yarran, Betts, Garlett and the mids is very dangerous. I think that's how we will end up looking. Hampson would get in the way.
IMO we are so much better having a fit Warnock doing 80% of the ruckwork. Rowe has shown he can handle the back up work and has been impressive when he has.
I generally agree with what you write, Pysch, but on this occassion I have a different view. IMO Warnock and Kruezer shouldn't play in the same team. And that means when Krueze is fit, 206 goes back to the magoos. Krueze is wasted anywhere but as #1 ruck, (he's not a very good key forward), and Warnock is just not capable of any other role.
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