What's our best ruck combo?

[Andyy]

Missing Soldo. It's hard for Nank doing it alone.

I thought Grimes struggled with Balta and Astbury moving out of defence to relieve Nank. Like he was forgetting who was where and when to mark his man vs roll off etc

[mightytiges]

Ryan is performing well in the twos.

Samson is our only available genuine ruck option at the minute with Soldo injured and CCJ still banned. Chol is unreliable and not a genuine ruckman anyway.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Missing Soldo. It's hard for Nank doing it alone.

I thought Grimes struggled with Balta and Astbury moving out of defence to relieve Nank. Like he was forgetting who was where and when to mark his man vs roll off etc

No Vlaustin doesn’t help the defensive structure.

Also having no pressure on the ball carrier when they are slicing and dicing inside fifty to an unmarked Hickey is embarrassing.
Also when a team somehow makes Reid look like a good player you know something is going terribly wrong 

[lamington]

Balta as second Ruck, and play him as a ruck forward with his booming kick. Bring Rance back in for FB 

[Diocletian]

 

. Bring Rance back in for FB 

Time to unleash Biggie...

[Tiger Khosh]

Wait one more week and then unleash CCJ

[Rampsation]

I reckon CCJ and Ryan will get games this year. Ryan as a mobile ruck iscan interesting option leaving Balta down back.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Balta as second Ruck, and play him as a ruck forward with his booming kick. Bring Rance back in for FB 

[TigerLand]

32 degrees we needed to use Nank a bit better. Although Hickey didn't seem to be concerned with the heat.

[georgies31]

Seeing Pickett in there is getting me upset when we got support in CCJ and we are ignoring it.Tall timber is breaking teams down this year and we played that system when Soldo was available what's the problem we're dieing for another tall target and change in our forward 50.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Me thinks Hardwick wants CCJ to earn it after his nighttime shenanigans could’ve potentially stuffed up our whole season.

I think the Pickett experiment was ok but it’s not the answer.

[one-eyed]

Using the AFL Player Ratings points won by each team’s ruckman at every stage throughout matches in 2021:


https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/west-coast-eagles/afl-2021-nic-naitanui-analysis-champion-index-stats-champion-data-west-coast-eagles-afls-best-ruckman/news-story/5317820293f0b1058766a17fb178f7dc

[the claw]

We still have no idea whatever to see what our best ruck combination is because we steadfastly refuse to play a second ruck or even fwd/ruck.

Going on what we have played the only answer you can come up with is Nankervis and Soldo.

Why arent we playing another tall fella to help not only Nankervis but JR and TL we have a young fella who addresses both those needs.
It really must be getting close to the point where CC-J will ask for a trade at years end.

[Diocletian]

Chol & Nankervis...in that order....

[one-eyed]

Second ruck delivers big time

Richmond has previously opted to run with a rag-tag combination of 184cm midfielder Marlion Pickett and key back David Astbury as its second ruck. The pair missed the win against Adelaide due to suspension and Achilles soreness respectively (along with Tom Lynch's knee injury), leading to the inclusion of Mabior Chol and Callum Coleman-Jones. Chol added a new dimension to the ruck and patched up those midfield lapses that had occurred when Pickett or Astbury attended centre bounces.

Source: AFL website