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Graham - first ruck in 2010
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Or the GC. ;D
Played well yesterday but the bloke is a dead set camel at times.
At the very least he can provide a big body in contests for the rest of the year.
I dont think he quite has what it takes, he is too soft for his size needs to impose himself a helluva lot more than he does and not very footy smart.
But am not against he and Rangamania playing out the season to see what they got..... perspective is required.
One or 2 marks does not a contract re newal make .... it is this sort of crap thats held the club back by having a list of re signed trucks and duds that they are forced to hang onto because they play 3 good games a year and were re signed.
Lets just see what transpires over the next 16 odd weeks.
Played well yesterday but the bloke is a dead set camel at times.
At the very least he can provide a big body in contests for the rest of the year.
I dont think he quite has what it takes, he is too soft for his size needs to impose himself a helluva lot more than he does and not very footy smart.
But am not against he and Rangamania playing out the season to see what they got..... perspective is required.
One or 2 marks does not a contract re newal make .... it is this sort of crap thats held the club back by having a list of re signed trucks and duds that they are forced to hang onto because they play 3 good games a year and were re signed.
Lets just see what transpires over the next 16 odd weeks.
GoodOne said:
They have struggled Goodie, but part of the reason for that has been they were playing 2 on 1 with a unfit ruckman all year. This was the first game they had two real ruckman playing in a game and they befitted from that.
If you look at the ruck stats from Sunday (http://www.prowess.com.au/pro-stats/reports/free_match_report_62.pdf) Gus was fine in his contests, TV was ordinary and Polak was awful.
LidsBling&Cotch said:
Yep and against a midfield that had some seriously talented contested ball winners
B1 and B2 said:
I reckon half the people on this forum would be better than Simmonds.
Even Graham's couple of marks in the forward 50 were three or four grabbers....a decent defender would have no problem punching it away from those hands.
I am far from being sold on him....but agree, he is better than Simmonds.
Col.W.Kurtz said:
Yes I use prowess quite often. I guess the point is not how many tap outs but how many were to advantage. We were beaten convincingly in that area, which gives even more credence to the efforts of our midfield to win so much of the clearances. I agree with others though, based on that performance Graham deserves to be there ahead of Simmonds.
rather than using his game yesterday to criticise the coaching staff for not picking him earlier in the year, does anyone think the time at coburg may have done him good, and allowed him to play to that level?- that level being a decent game, not overly good, but prob about the best we can hope for from gus.
I am not sold on him at all but that was far & away his best game for the club. If that can pump his confidence up & he can improve on that...then he is worth retaining. He still needs to improve but that was the most encouraged I have been for his time with us by a long way.
Got beaten by that pr!ck Hille... seemed to go missing at times? but I liked his attack on the ball and he used it well.
