(04-19-2023, 06:01 AM)Gointocarlton date Wrote:Statistically at least, our rucks right now are way off the mark.They are out of form, partly it's due to the changes in the way the ruck is being umpired, TDK was being slammed early in the season for stuff that was OK last season. The way the AFL Interpret the rules is bullsh1t, just umpire the rules as they are written, and penalise infringements.
At the moment, with all the umpires out there you get stuff happening like last Thursday, when in one moment TDK is pinged for blocking O'Brien, and a few moments later a different umpire let's O'Brien do the very same thing to TDK without penalty. It's too much touchy feely rubbish, just umpire the rules.
And FFS, do not listen to Scott whinging about his bloke Blicsav getting hurt because he won't jump or has bad knees or whatever sh1t reason it may be! Blicsav doesn't jump because he wants to run off after the tap without being penalised for blocking, not because of some weird excuse about what opponents do!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"