Maric mcbean Elton is that not three options
are you seriously expecting the bean pole that mcbean is to hold down a kp.
maric is a ruckman and is not in contention for vickerys spot.
elton is the only viable/realistic kpf in the wings and like mcbean common sense would be to ask if hes ready for the role. not imo. but hey ready or not perhaps hed give more than vickery has.
effectively there is no viable replacement for vickery unless, we play griffiths in the role, play hampson as a ruck/for and bring in orren as the starting ruckman.
atm unless players jump out of their skins with improvement the cupboard is bare. i say again we have numbers but we just dont have the quality or development within those numbers.
1/ When Maric fit - could play Ivan fwd - beaner 4th tall. when ivans fit he is by a country mile the best ruckman we have. he will play predominately in the ruck and rightly so wit
2/ Or play jack + griff only two kPp. And a 200cm flanker
3/ Elton would non worse tyrone last dig
4/ If Hampson is going to be in the 21 - Maric must play forward a lot
5/ Sadly it is unrealistic to expect a 25 year old, 200cm, former top ten draft pick kPp to just be waiting in the twos for jack or Tyrone to have a bad game
1/ when ivan is fit he will play ruck. no if or buts about it. when fit hes a country mile in front of any other ruckman we have.
2/ so you play griff and jack as permanent kpfs and mcbean as a flanker which one goes into the ruck to help ivan or until ivan is fit hampson. so in a way you agree mcbean is not ready to play kpf but are willing to leave us with only one kpf throughout games.
you do realise the whole idea of getting hampson was to address this very issue allowing vickery to play permanently forward so we dont lose structure.
3/ your right elton would be no worse than vickery my granny would be no worse. that doesnt mean hes capable of holding down chf for us.
4/ mate hampson will be in the 21 with or without maric there. hampson will spend significant time forward when ivan is fit not the other way around. these are the reasons we got him 1/ not to lose too much in the ruck when ivan has a rest. 2/ to allow vickery or another tall to play permanently forward to maintain structure throughout a game with jack. these are the reason why we got hampson.
5/ i have to ask who the hell are you talking about, we dont have a 25yo former top 10 draft pick kpp on the list waiting in the wings for injury. we dont have one kpp who looks remotely like being able to force riewoldt or vickery out as bad as they have been at times yet alone a ready to go 25yr old. ffs lets get him in the team quick smart.
