Young ruck man

[undy]

For those who support the position that we should play 2 legitimate ruckmen, in lieu of using Tippett or LRT as a relief ruckman, I would make the following suggestion:

Fill in the team with your best 22, excluding the 2nd ruckman. Then decide who you would drop from the team to play Tom Derickx or Nanny. That's the reality of the what you would be faced with as a selector.

If only the selectors were so lucky. To do this exercise more realistically, write down the names of all the tall ruckmen and forwards on a sheet of paper in any order, then cross out every 4th one. That's your lucky-with-injuries-and-suspensions scenario. Repeat and cross out every 2nd one - that's your unlucky-with-injuries scenario.

[Ludwig]

If only the selectors were so lucky. To do this exercise more realistically, write down the names of all the tall ruckmen and forwards on a sheet of paper in any order, then cross out every 4th one. That's your lucky-with-injuries-and-suspensions scenario. Repeat and cross out every 2nd one - that's your unlucky-with-injuries scenario.

Mine was a best case scenario. The injury scenario is basically the same except if Pyke is injured, then Derickx takes his place. If TIppett is injured as well, then perhaps LRT or Nanny come in as well, if only Tippett is injured and not Pyke, then LRT must play. It doesn't change the dynamic of the structure. In all of these scenarios, we still have only 1 primary ruckman and a relief ruckman who plays mostly forward. Even in the 2 man down scenario, Nanny would play Tippett's primary forward role, which he is quite capable of. Hopefully he can do it at AFL level as well.