Braithy wrote:
bondiblue wrote:
What does a team without Pitto or TDK look like?
ie One recognised ruck with Harry giving the ruck a chop out.
How many minutes would Harry be expected to ruck, not by Voss, but by posters?
If we went in with 1 ruck, the sub would have to be a recognised ruck. Agree? Don't agree?
you poor little mutton chop!
arguably the best ruck duo - Darcy and Jackson in freo, and without a ruckman we went to their house and slapped them sideways.
that's what a team without pitto or tdk looks. my advice is to keep tdk, use sos as the back up with harry and charlie doing their thing up front while one ruck rests forward.
I can agree with points made, not the mutton bit, but the rest. I get it. I like it. If that's the way it pans out, great.
I can't see how the most disappointing team in 2023, playing the way they have, is going to be an environment conducive to thriving for Jackson and Darcy. Voss would make them work with our players around them. But I get your point.
You and I know that the method we are playing footy, for the last 2 months, is working because of the buy in by every Carlton player.
The way we have been playing and are playing we can still win with or without Pitto against GCS against Witts, and against GWS with no ruck threat.
I'm just looking at what's likely to be our team vs the Opposition in Finals, and hopefully get them playing together as much as possible before the break, and Finals.I think that's what's happening before our eyes, and I really like it. I relate to it.
I've always been strong on this about ruckmen in Finals.
If the ruck position is a threat against us, we must not give them the ascendency,and deliver silver service to ther mids.
Horses for courses. Not all opposition rucks are the same. There's big ones, huge ones, and really really big ones and freaks, like Sandilands. Thank god he's not around.
If something happens to our only weapon in the ruck, our one and only one wood where does that leave our structure?
In a Final, or would play Pitto vs Witts. Tomorrow I couldnt give a stuff, but if that's what Vossy is doing now, he's surely putting the band together to get a couple of games together.
What other teams do has nothing to do with us.
Whatever their threat is in a Final does.
If Pitto went down in a GF and TDK had to go 100% against Gawn, without a chop out, he would last 75% game time at 24yo.
SOS vs Gawn? Really?
Harry vs Gawn? Really?
Leave May & Lever to dominate Charlie?
Nah, everyone gets up and about in a GF, even Pitto would.
W want us to be ready to counter a prick like Neil Balme will throw at us. We are bullet proof.
I wouldnt be surprised if Goodwin played Grundy as the sub in a GF, coz if Gawn gets injured....