Team Selection Policy In 2016

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I think this is the best place for Bolton's latest musings:

Stating the obvious perhaps, but Bolton will be expecting others to step up.

His thoughts on Kreuzer and the other talls are interesting too:

Rucks who can play forward and/or forwards who can ruck have been part of the Hawthorn "system" and it seems that Bolton will follow a similar approach.

Kreuzer is not a forward, never was and never will be, he is either a ruck or a ruck rover end of story.

I think some of Kreuzers very best stoppage work came about when he was ruck roving to either Hampson or Warnock inside F50, not unlike what Roughead does for Hawthorn on occasions.

When blokes that size get momentum around a pack and the tap works out in their general direction it's very hard to prevent them from getting a clean possession away. And if the tap doesn't work they tend to hit opponents very hard, you don't see blokes breaking away from a Kreuzer tackle in the way they shrug off a Carrazzo, Murphy or Gibbs. Imagine Cripps and Murphy set free next to a marauding Kreuzer.

The only other place they should try and play Kreuzer is on a wing in Gehrig style. Opposition clubs will be forced to put a monster defender or other ruckmen on him but most won't have the capacity to keep running with him. Further he still gets to rove stoppages from that position, you can have him at most stoppages between CHB and CHF.