(06-17-2020, 01:09 AM)Gointocarlton date Wrote:Agreed, as bad as we are travelling, a bit harsh to pot a bloke in his first game for the club.It's not his first AFL game, he's been in the system since 2014, it's a harsh reality.
If De Koning is at the same stage in 2023 many fans will want him cut due to the lack of progress!
By the time these rucks are 4 or 5 years in the system they need to be at a high level, if not they are likely to be career placeholders. A lot of players have entered the system later and gone past a guy like Pittonet.
Even Levi, without his improved KPP play he'd be long gone, because his rucking is at very best B-Grade but probably in reality C-Grade!
When we lose SpecialK we see such a stark difference in match-day outcomes, is not because SpecialK is fragile, but because the next player in line is so much weaker in the same role! He's our only current A-Grade ruck option by a long way!
Further, in recent years, we've been weakened because a bunch of Norbits somewhere decided rucks were over-rated and we bought in big time. Now the trend has reversed we are screwed and doing so from a position of weakness on the bottom of the ladder. We demolished the only part of our club that had A-Grade depth!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"