for/ruck - vickery 23, mcbean 19. to my way of thinking they are more kpps than ruckmen. i cant see either ever being a combative #1 ruck. so thats 2 for/rucks 3 if you include hampson more than enough.
vickery is still young for a ruckman.
i believe come 25/26/27 years of age he has the capacity of being a serviceable #1 ruckman. some of his best footy has been on the ball. his excellent agility for a bigman is especially prevalent when playing ruck
we dont have the luxury of this untill the like of Griff, Bean, Elton come good
claw - who would you say are the "combative #1 ruck." in the afl, aged 23 or less? Outside of nicnat
every time i make comment on this bloke i end up getting abused. reckon ive constantly made what points i want to and im now at the point where im not commenting on him at all. he will have to let his football do the talking.
on the clubs decision to get hampson. tyrone turns 24 in early may hes played 70 odd games and will push toward 100 games next season. yet the club has gone out and got hampson to perform the ruck duties that vickery really should be taking on on a more regular basis if hes to become our #1 ruckman.
this suggests to me even the club have given up on the idea of him becoming a front line ruckman.
if he is to be one of our two kpfs i dont want him pinch hitting in the ruck at all that job now falls to hampson.
there are reasons why ive said vickery will struggle to play 1st ruck, they arent nice reasons but i will stick by em. i wont be repeating them ive said my piece many a time.
next yr i will rate his game or performance as a kpp thats about it.