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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #165 on: April 03, 2021, 09:11:51 PM »
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

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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #166 on: April 03, 2021, 09:13:50 PM »
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.
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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #167 on: April 03, 2021, 10:57:01 PM »
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  :rollin
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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #168 on: April 03, 2021, 11:35:28 PM »
Balta as second Ruck, and play him as a ruck forward with his booming kick. Bring Rance back in for FB  :shh

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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #169 on: April 03, 2021, 11:36:51 PM »
 
. Bring Rance back in for FB  :shh

Time to unleash Biggie... :shh :shh
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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #170 on: April 04, 2021, 12:19:56 AM »
Wait one more week and then unleash CCJ

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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #171 on: April 04, 2021, 06:02:23 AM »
I reckon CCJ and Ryan will get games this year. Ryan as a mobile ruck iscan interesting option leaving Balta down back.

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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #172 on: April 04, 2021, 07:05:55 AM »
Balta as second Ruck, and play him as a ruck forward with his booming kick. Bring Rance back in for FB  :shh
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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #173 on: April 04, 2021, 08:02:04 AM »
32 degrees we needed to use Nank a bit better. Although Hickey didn't seem to be concerned with the heat.
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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #174 on: May 09, 2021, 07:25:18 PM »
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.

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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #175 on: May 09, 2021, 07:33:13 PM »
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.
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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #177 on: May 19, 2021, 05:02:28 PM »
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.

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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #178 on: May 30, 2021, 05:15:10 PM »
Chol & Nankervis...in that order.... :shh
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Re: What's our best ruck combo?
« Reply #179 on: May 30, 2021, 05:48:01 PM »
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.

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