The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.
To me this is important. Tippett has not been effective lately. He has only 28 (Av 7) disposals in 4 games for 3.2 (Av 0.8) scoring. He is averaging 10 HO per game which is pretty pathetic. His output is the worst of any of the ruck division who have played Seniors this season. Even Sam Reid is ahead on Av HO is 3.2 but only played ruck for 2 games so in reality 14.5. Tip really needs to step up. He is contracted for next season but if he doesn't start playing the way we know he can then he might be heading north next year. If we can get them to buy his contract out.
In reality Ludwig I see him as third if not fourth on the pecking order on form. Cameron got 55 against a pretty good opponent in Tagliabou last week in the reserves. I don't agree with you over ruckmen as I believe we are better balanced with Reid up forward not gallivanting around the field. As for teams having only one ruck or no ruck that is s furfey. So Bullies had no rucks last week? Redpath and Boyd are not rucks?
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At least we are not playing Bullies, GWS, Saints, Norf or Cats tonight. If we were we would have to watvch them play Rugby Union while we try to play aussie Rules. The umpies have again proved that you an throw all you like if you are playing for certain teams in the last two weeks. I wonder if Clarko, who hates the throw nor being penalised, will decide to use it tonight?
One of my issues with the game is the high tackles.
When I was at school "too high" didn't exist. It was "round the neck"
Ok, so the game got professional, and the player needs to be protected etc, but when a tackle is laid, and the tackle slides up to the shoulders, it really annoys me that that is a free.
It seems to be against the grain of the game as it's just a technical free kick when the player who is being tackled was put at not risk of injury.
A small thing, but annoying.
I'm still getting my head around HTB and how long a player can hold on without being penalised.
Hated how the AFL went with a slit second to release it or they are pinned, but we all got used to this, and now it seems like they can hang on for an eternity, whih is good, but hard to adjust to.
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.
If you go through the team lists you will find that we are now the only club playing 2 ruckmen. I'm not counting Lobb as a ruckman in this case because Mummy does all the ruck work until he's exhausted. Hawthorn used to play 2 ruckmen regularly, but ran out of bodies. So now there's just us.
Here's something reported by Nick Bowen on North Melbourne:
Ruckman Braydon Preuss appears unlikely to play despite being named on North�s extended bench for Sunday�s game. North coach Brad Scott said at his Friday press conference that it had become increasingly hard to play two ruckmen
Tippett's stats can be misleading as he was injured in the first quarter of one of the 4 games he played, so it can have a big distortion on the averages. He has played more forward than in the ruck this year, especially when paired with Naismith. He also played more forward last week. Everyone knows he's down of the form he showed in the first half of last year. He's already had a couple of injuries this season. We just have to wait to see if he can get a solid block of games and work his way back to his best form, which is pretty good.
I also commented that I liked Cameron's game against Tagliabue, who, as you say, is a pretty decent ruckman. I would like to see him get a run in the seniors sometime.
Last edited by Ludwig; 26th May 2017 at 05:59 PM.
With our good players back from injury and improving form ... and... Hawthorn with lots of injuries to key players and old players looking cooked .... if there was ever a game where we should give them a hiding it is tonight.
Go Swannies - don't let this opportunity go past.
The AFL rule book is made up of core and non core or supplementary rules. The later are the rules that are brought in on the run. eg. the dropping the knees and out of bounds rules.
Last year it was red hot on dropping the knees, this season it has dropped off the radar. Mind you Hewett adjusted his game to suit the rule for the better. The deliberate out of bounds rule has disappeared as if it never existed.
What about running into the "protected space". Doesn't exist any more. Both sides last night were running past a player who had taken a mark or a free and/or were coming behind the player to take the mark.
Is it because umpires have short term memory problems or an umpire's boss who has NFI.
Lets just stick to the core rules.
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