(06-07-2022, 05:49 AM)Mav date Wrote:JSOS and Cripps are certainly capable of taking on Phillips around the ground.Around the ground I was very impressed with Cripps, he's really grown into the stoppage ruck role / contest and was a serious threat, he is just too strong for even the bigger rucks and his recovery to the 2nd effort is a magnitude better than most rucks his size or bigger. So the opposition rucks start hanging onto him so that he can't join the chain of play, and if they do that too much he could win some frees if the umpires are switched on, a useful trick inside F50 in a tight game. A bit like Hawkins
A lot of this is down to SpecialK's ruck coaching skills, you can see it in all our guys who ruck now, none of them stop and watch they are looking to be a continuous part of play.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"