04-12-2016, 06:14 AM
(04-12-2016, 04:17 AM)DJC link Wrote:I'm not sure what I'm missing when watching Kreuzer this season. I'm certainly not seeing the broken down has been other folk are complaining about.
First of all, I think Kreuzer is spending too much time as a forward. That's not his caper and we need his second and third efforts around the ground.
Secondly, if you look at the hitouts won by each side's two ruckmen (or ruckmen/forwards), we're not far off the pace and are in a group of 8 teams that are averaging 38 to 41 hitouts in the three games.
West Coast is leading with 54, Freo and Melbourne have 44 and then it's Adelaide, Hawthorn, Port, Sydney, St Kilda, North, Carlton and Collingwood. The teams with the poorest performing rucks are Richmond, GWS, Essendon, Brisbane, Bulldogs, Gold Coast and Geelong.
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I wonder about all the angst on display about him - and Philips for that matter. We don't have the best ruck division for sure but it seems to me it's far from our most critical problem.
Reality always wins in the end.