Squad for JLT game named

[kruddler]

Not sure of anyone who said we have enough ruckmen, but surely there would have to be a black sheep in there somewhere. Pretty sure most of us thought we needed more cover in the ruck.

Casboult should be our next ruckman in line after Kreuzer. Then Rowe. Then Korchek. McKay should be last on the list.

[PaulP]

My preference would be for Harry Mac to not be on that list at all. I'd rather have Murph do the rucking.

[kruddler]

My preference would be for Harry Mac to not be on that list at all. I'd rather have Murph do the rucking.

Thats what i was implying.

[PaulP]

Thats what i was implying.

Good to hear.

[sydneybluesfan]

Good to hear.

At least we have a role for Liam, KJ or Daisy next week!

I wouldn't risk Korcheck - we might actually need him at some stage, unlike those 3......

[DJC]

I'm still not sure why Harry shouldn't be played in the ruck  ???

Apparently he has bulked up to 100kg and most of the top ruckmen in the competition began rucking at 19 years of age.

[PaulP]

My guess is that the top ruckmen to which you refer are actually recruited as ruckmen and not as something else.

Rucking is seen as something a little unskilled compared to other positions, and it's a job that tends to fall to big blokes with er........ let's call them limitations. Which isn't to say that you can't have great ruckmen. Quite the contrary. It's also very wearing on the body.

I reckon we've earmarked Harry for greater things. But that's just my opinion.

[LoveNavy]

My preference would be for Harry Mac to not be on that list at all. I'd rather have Murph do the rucking.

He didn't do so well in the marking contest against Max yesterday. I think his confidence might suffer a tad

[PaulP]

He didn't do so well in the marking contest against Max yesterday. I think his confidence might suffer a tad

He wasn't trying hard enough. Must be under instruction.

[Thryleon]

Two things I took out of the game.

1. We are still relying heavily on the experienced heads to get through matches.  Whilst that occurs we won't achieve a lot.  Until these blokes are bit part players and the sub 25 year olds are our better performers we will be in for a rough time.

2.  It's pretty hard for blokes to have pace with tired legs resulting in tired minds, and tired execution.  We had feck all rotations going on by design in comparison to Melbourne.

Petracca was impressive.  Very impressive.