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  • Rob-bloods
    What a year 2005 SSFC/CFC
    • Aug 2003
    • 931
    #1

    Goodes Ruckman

    For all those who wanted Goodes in the ruck more often,have a good look at the tape of his knee being crunched by a giant!

    When I saw Goodes step up the opening ruck I thought it was bad move, it was.

    Goodes needs to find his position, it is NOT opening ruck IMO.
    Sports do not build character. They reveal it....Heywood Broun

    I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures......Earl Warren
    Tags: goodes, ruckman, Swans, sydney
    • dendol
      fat-arsed midfielder
      • Oct 2003
      • 1483
      #2
      Re: Goodes Ruckman

      Originally posted by Rob-bloods
      For all those who wanted Goodes in the ruck more often,have a good look at the tape of his knee being crunched by a giant!

      When I saw Goodes step up the opening ruck I thought it was bad move, it was.

      Goodes needs to find his position, it is NOT opening ruck IMO.
      He should be used after Doyle and/or Ball get first crack at softening up the opposition ruckmen. With his endurance and athleticism, I think it would be best to give him time in the ruck at least halfway after each quarter.

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        • Rob-bloods
          What a year 2005 SSFC/CFC
          • Aug 2003
          • 931
          #3
          Re: Re: Goodes Ruckman

          Originally posted by dendol
          He should be used after Doyle and/or Ball get first crack at softening up the opposition ruckmen. With his endurance and athleticism, I think it would be best to give him time in the ruck at least halfway after each quarter.
          Right on, I have to say against Cox this was ordinary coaching..
          Sports do not build character. They reveal it....Heywood Broun

          I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures......Earl Warren

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            • robbieando
              The King
              • Jan 2003
              • 2750
              #4
              Re: Goodes Ruckman

              Originally posted by Rob-bloods
              Goodes needs to find his position, it is NOT opening ruck IMO.
              So just where do you think we should play him then. He doesn't cut it as a forward and as a defender other teams would do to him, what they do to Leo now. We need his drive around the ground, to do that he has to be either a ruckman or a midfielder. Today was just plain unlucky.
              Once was, now elsewhere

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                • NMWBloods
                  Taking Refuge!!
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 15819
                  #5
                  I've been saying for months that he should be the ruck rover, doing rucking around the ground, not at centre bounce as that's where ruckman are often injured, particularly when crashing into much bigger guys. And what happens today...
                  Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

                  "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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                    • robbieando
                      The King
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 2750
                      #6
                      Originally posted by NMWBloods
                      I've been saying for months that he should be the ruck rover, doing rucking around the ground, not at centre bounce as that's where ruckman are often injured, particularly when crashing into much bigger guys. And what happens today...
                      Yet no problem with him doing it last year. Yes it is a risk to play him in the ruck and today that risk didn't pay off, but we can't turn around and say he should be used in the ruck after calling for him to be there for the last few weeks and praising him all last season for the work he did. He was plain unlucky.
                      Once was, now elsewhere

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                        • NMWBloods
                          Taking Refuge!!
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 15819
                          #7
                          No, but my point is that he really should not be used much in the centre square. I agree that it was definitely unlucky, particularly as he has not been used in the centre square so much this year, and not really Roos' fault Ialthough I have to wonder about using Goodes against Cox), however the more he is used in the centre, the more chance of it happening.
                          Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

                          "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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                            • stellation
                              scott names the planets
                              • Sep 2003
                              • 9737
                              #8
                              Re: Goodes Ruckman

                              Originally posted by Rob-bloods
                              For all those who wanted Goodes in the ruck more often,have a good look at the tape of his knee being crunched by a giant!

                              When I saw Goodes step up the opening ruck I thought it was bad move, it was.

                              Goodes needs to find his position, it is NOT opening ruck IMO.
                              Should be ruck rover, not ruckman.

                              And I know he won't get the kudos here for it, but Saddo didn't take a backwards step when he had to ruck.
                              I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
                              We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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                                • NMWBloods
                                  Taking Refuge!!
                                  • Jan 2003
                                  • 15819
                                  #9
                                  I thought Saddo rucked alright for the short time he was there.
                                  Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

                                  "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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                                    • DST
                                      The voice of reason!
                                      • Jan 2003
                                      • 2705
                                      #10
                                      If it was not for Saddo we could have got flogged, managed to compete at the centre bounces and got a bit of the footy around the ground.

                                      It at least allowed Ball to get a rest during the game.

                                      DST
                                      "Looking forward to a rebuilt, new, fast and exciting Swans model in 2010"

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