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Well i have posted this before many years ago and will do again now
My opinion on the Ruck role in a club is that unless you have a dominant Ruckman like Grundy/Gawn then your team should have 4/5 players that have rucking ability but are players capable of being used in multiple positions and it kind of looks like we might be headed that way post Soldo/Nank
Say for example if these players develop as we hope then we could possibly have
Backline : Miller / Biggy / Balta
Foward : Lynch / CCJ / Chol
Now wouldnt that be an interesting headache for the opposition coaches to deal with
Mathew Clarke and Fly both agreed with each other at a Club function that CCJ has the makings of an A grade ruck and a B grade forward.
The problem is would you ever play an A grade forward in the ruck?
I also had to look twice when I noticed you’ve got Lynch in a pocket. I think you put too much brandy in your Xmas pudding.
That's true and I think there could be a bit of "tongue in cheek" with that comment by Sheeds seeing as he is well known to be a joker and a stirrer. He may be still hurt after being rejected in 2009 but I doubt it after 10 years. He's just a stirrer, like KB, so don't pay any attention to those opinions. P.S. We were very lucky that Marlion played so well in his first game at AFL level!
3 weeks off on top of the 2 months in Oct/Nov. Tough life, I was grateful for 2 weeks!
I know its common now and a lot of players call it work, they are also covered by legal labor laws etc.
In saying that I know that's how professional athletes gain their income but I don't consider it work to play professionally a sport 99.9% of the players have loved since being a little one to now be at such a level they get paid above average wages for. I consider it a privilege their life long dream is a reality.
I understand their time in footy is different to Golf etc as their footy careers are much shorter, in saying that when they get to retirement age their are many players that go on to have successful careers afterwards.
Maybe im being pedantic but every time i hear them refer to it as work (Cotch does it all the time) i cringe.
Bennnny
Punt Road End. The best place to watch The Tiges.
Not arguing as I can imagine its a grind, don't think its all a bed of roses for Nadal and Woods etc either, theres a level of dedication and hard work to be elite and a professional sportsmen, most sports excluding some armature types earn far more than basic wage.
Perhaps its just me and that's fine, but I still don't think of it as work!
I was talking to an ex swans player last year who had played for them about 20 years ago. He was asked what was it like playing AFL?
His reply was in one word 'pain'. You train it's pain, you get a massage it's pain, you see the physio it's pain and when you play it's pain.
My daughter was a nationally ranked 400 mt. runner and a runner on the Pro circuit winning several major gifts. Her description of her condition was the same as she said
that her body ached all the time from the training load required to compete at the highest level.
AFL players would be no different these days as to be there at the pointy end of the season you have to push your body to its limits to be fit enough to perform at the
highest level every week.
I can understand why some players see it as work.
His reply was in one word 'pain'. You train it's pain, you get a massage it's pain, you see the physio it's pain and when you play it's pain.
My daughter was a nationally ranked 400 mt. runner and a runner on the Pro circuit winning several major gifts. Her description of her condition was the same as she said
that her body ached all the time from the training load required to compete at the highest level.
AFL players would be no different these days as to be there at the pointy end of the season you have to push your body to its limits to be fit enough to perform at the
highest level every week.
I can understand why some players see it as work.
Absolutely no doubt its tough, I played tennis semi professionally for a few years but wasn't good enough to make a decent living and pursued business instead, so I definitely get how competitive and the hard work involved to be an elite sportsman/woman.
Perhaps its my distinction more than anything as I see it as an occupation (albeit a short time as a player), but the term going to work does annoy me. I will leave it there and as I started perhaps its just me, irrespective theres a growing trend to refer to it as work which I don't like.
I recall D.Fletcher being interviewed when he announced his retirement at the age of 40, he said he'd never had a real job! Sure being a player would be tough on the body but they'd really find something to complain about if they were working thier ass off for minimum wage with no pay rise on the horizon. If they are smart with thier $ while playing the higher paid players would never need to work post retirement while in thier early to mid 30's....
All this talk up on Buddy training the house down and returning to 2020 as the superhero messiah mega-star and then....oops.....
Time to retire Buddy boy.
Time to retire Buddy boy.
