bondiblue wrote:
Bigredisback wrote:
Watching eagles rucks destroy hawks hopeless rucks shows how disappointing kruz is
I think most posters would be lying if they said they didn't expect Kreuzer to be dominating post 23yo.
I would be surprised if any poster says they didn't expect Kreuzer to be better as a ruckman and at marking thatn he is.
That doesn't suggest that Kreuzer is a dud as a footballer.
But I think more to the point maybe Bigred meant that NicNat (pick 2) and Cox (rookie) are miles ahead of our rucks Kreuzer (pick 1), Hampson (pick 17) and Warnock (pick 23).
Both Nic Nat and Cox have an allround game: tapping, marking, kicking, handballing, linking....none of ours have that.
That's pretty disappointing imo.
..dominating post 23?, fair chance he would have, if he didn't have a two and a half year ACL setback..
..in regards to rucking, he had 32 hitouts vs hawks, at 41% adv.. ..that's huge, and more than either cox or nicnat had.... ..in regards to marking, 2013 averages he's better than average, and is ahead of NicNat [though not as flashy].. ..Cox is very good, but he racks up good marking numbers more'so when playing 2nd ruck to Nicnat..
..Krooz has a very balanced and all-round game.. ..NicNat and Cox are a rare ruck combo that works well together week in, week out.. ..very few ruck combo's are as consistently good as cox and nicnat.. ..Krooz has Casboult as his back-up, a developing KPF and not a pure ruck, plus Bolt has to play a proper KPF role up fwd when not rucking, so he's carrying a big workload.. ..Cox wasnt as good earlier in the year when rucking mostly alone..