(10-09-2023, 08:18 AM)DJC link Wrote:Our best ruck combination, until someone else comes along, is Pittonet and De Koning, followed by De Koning and O’Keeffe, then Pittonet and O’Keeffe.
The solution to the lack of foot speed by some of our mids isn’t playing the even slower Silvagni as a second ruck....
It might not be long before that first combination falls behind the other two. Certainly it gives us better mobility and forward craft than any combination involving Pitto, but we lose his physicality. Not that O'Keeffe is shy of putting his body on the line but he doesn't - yet - have the size to do it effectively against most AFL first rucks.
As to JSOS rucking not being a solution to lack of leg speed, the comparison is not to the other mids but to whoever would be doing the second ruck role if not JSOS. If that were Pitto or Mirkov for example, then JSOS clearly is quicker, not so if it is TDK, Harry McKay or say Dom Akuei (not that he is near firsts level) he was keeping out of that role.