Author Topic: how many teams have won a premiership with a weak fullback who misses targets ?  (Read 6991 times)

Offline WilliamPowell

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wp, u r an astute footy watcher and judge, you know deep down rance is not a premiership fb, and his position is not guaranteed due to his disposal and decision making

kpp griffiths astbury chaplin grimes all have better skills than rance, cant have them all in

I think both areas you highlighted have improved out of sight in the last couple of seasons. I think his decision making is not his weakness but agree his kicking lets him down at times.

I would think as it stands right now he is our number 1 defender and rightly so. He fights outside his weight division nearly every week and more often than not he wins more contests than he loses. He last few games on Johnno Brown being the perfect example

I think he so far ahead of Astbury it isn't fair to compare TBBH
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when rance is no longer a regular in the team we shall speak again

if he is so damn awesome why did we target chaplin!!!!

I don't know   :-\ :-\


Maybe just maybe we went after Chaplin because outside of Rance and Grimes (who's been injured alot the last 2 years) we had no other KPP backs ready to go

wp, u r an astute footy watcher and judge, you know deep down rance is not a premiership fb, and his position is not guaranteed due to his disposal and decision making

kpp griffiths astbury chaplin grimes all have better skills than rance, cant have them all in

Maybe they have better skills but whos a better stopper? Rance would be the second best out of them? Coach would agree, but his been quiet since WP had to snip

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rance aint a stopper , good fwds murder him always

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Rance to me used to be what S. Edwards is to WAT but i have been impressed by his progress.
Rance is our best defender. Grimes can't stay on the park, Newy is getting on and never really manned up anyway, Stevie M is a goer but is no where near taking a Key forward.  Griff, same as Grimes.

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when rance is no longer a regular in the team we shall speak again

if he is so damn awesome why did we target chaplin!!!!

I don't know   :-\ :-\


Maybe just maybe we went after Chaplin because outside of Rance and Grimes (who's been injured alot the last 2 years) we had no other KPP backs ready to go

wp, u r an astute footy watcher and judge, you know deep down rance is not a premiership fb, and his position is not guaranteed due to his disposal and decision making

kpp griffiths astbury chaplin grimes all have better skills than rance, cant have them all in

Maybe they have better skills but whos a better stopper? Rance would be the second best out of them? Coach would agree, but his been quiet since WP had to snip

I think Rancey would be the second best stopper there. Easily.

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if grimes gets fit, he and chaplin anf griffiths will be our 3 kpp backmen
no room for rance esp with petterd  who has skill and footy smarts

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if grimes gets fit, he and chaplin anf griffiths will be our 3 kpp backmen
no room for rance esp with petterd  who has skill and footy smarts

I'm hardly a prude. You need to go to bed brah. Let's be honest, Rance is a walk up start. Chaplin is not better than Rance in any way and the only thing Griffiths (currently) has over Rance is size and skills. But skills don't matter when you get 3 kicks a game. Petterd shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as Rance.
In my view, Grimes is our best stopper followed by the prancing one. Chaplin a distant 3rd. They will be our 3 talls and if we play 4 then maybe Griffiths with get a game. It annoys me when people talk Rance up as a star defender but you're underselling him massively here.

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Rance.

Handsome lad who stuffs around at training too much, always looking to impress the pussy.

Another one who isn't giving 100% of his mind to the  full time job he has

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Trying to impress the what? I'm hardly a prude....Rance still hasn't come out of the closet? When will someone tell him it's fine to bat for the other team.

As Chappy's follower he will pick up the wisdom needed to become as good as any other defender in Richmond history

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If our midfield do their job we could play these 3 down back and still comeout on top.


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Trying to impress the what? I'm hardly a prude....Rance still hasn't come out of the closet? When will someone tell him it's fine to bat for the other team.

His wife probably doesn't want anyone to tell him that.  :lol Didn't he just get married?

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Yes The Rancer just got married, but only because it is illegal to be a homo in WA and his parents house has been attacked by anti-gay nuffers

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who said it's fine ... not me

what's next paedosare normal too

screw political correctness

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Yes The Rancer just got married, but only because it is illegal to be a homo in WA and his parents house has been attacked by anti-gay nuffers

Exactly brah

who said it's fine ... not me

what's next paedosare normal too

screw political correctness

I am one, so yeah it's normal bro.