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Nick Vlastuin
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It looks like the recruiters' policy of finding players with one unusually large body part is finally paying dividends, if Bargearse McBean and The People's Melon are anything to go by. Although Nahas brings it down to two out of three. Swings and roundabouts.
Re: A positive - Vlastuin?
Hell yeah, but equally good, if not better when he doesn't have the ball...
Pappy said:
Hell yeah, but equally good, if not better when he doesn't have the ball...
From what I've heard Nacho definitely makes it three out of three, but I aint looking to verify.TJsFurrow said:
Baloo said:
There were quite a few heads on the island, are we to expect a father & son dynasty?
bullus_hit said:
From the highlights I've seen of him and in the VFL he just looks like your stock standard ruckman, nothing more. I wouldn't take a ruckman at pick 9 when you can get a potential 200 + game midfielder who can take the game by the scruff of the neck which I think Vlastuin can when he gets older.
I'd rather have a gun midfielder then your average ruckman who you can poach from another club or the state leagues at the ready made age of 24-25. Look at Billy Longer for example. Brisbane took him at pick 8 when they could have taken Ellis, Greene, Tomlinson or Adams. Not writing Longer off but i'd prefer a gun midfielder over your stock standard ruckman who takes 4-5 to even really hit their straps unless their Natainui like which is a one off.
Biggy said:
He's just come back from injury so I would take your observations with a grain of salt. And the argument that midfielders are better value first round picks is debatable. Since 2004, every ruckman recruited in the first round has progressed as expected. Meeson was the last bust almost a decade ago, since that time we've had Leuenberger, McEvoy, Kreuzer, Naitanui, Ryder, Vickery and Clark.
Statistically, the ruck is one of the safest choices, and far from writing off guys like Longer and Grundy, I'd be wagering that they stand a very good chance of succeeding.
Not that I want to dredge out the past, but very few posters including myself wrote Vlas off as a definite bust. Quite the opposite in fact, I think I commented at the time that he was a certain 150 gamer with a ceiling as high as Lenny Hayes.
Would I have taken Grundy ahead of him? Sure would have, and my concerns over our fragile ruck stocks remain as prevalent today as they were at draft time. Addressing the ruck should be our top priority come year's end.
bullus_hit said:
Experts can't agree on the significance of the number of heads. Some say we can expect 887 Flossy's to play for the RFC by the time the end of the world comes around. Others are more practical and believing the numbers of statues all over the island are a cryptic message that Flossy seems to be everywhere. Where ever you look, there will be a flossy.
