PLAYER DISCUSSION
• Might be going him to Lobbe and swapping him to forwards with Petrie. How bad was his injury? - big_banana - 161 months ago |
• who's trading this guy out now?? - BartelCRAP - 161 months ago |
• Luckily Max Bailey is in this week to cover Smithy. - Vigawla - 161 months ago |
• How long is Zac out for? Is this just the week? - jwshrive - 161 months ago |
• Not playing this weekend. OUCH. Lucky he is my 3rd ruckman behind Cox and Petrie - fivestarmd - 161 months ago |
• I turned Fraser into Cox in about round 7. Having Cox, Sandi and THE ROOK LEGEND ZAC SMITH is the best. I even have coverage with Petrie on the forward line. It's ruck heaven, even with Sandi on the bench. Thank you God's of ruck. Last year I burned four trades, this year I made one upgrade and everything is peachy! - GJayBee - 162 months ago |
• GUN!! ALL AUSTRALIAN IN 2 YEARS!! - UberYummy - 162 months ago |
• Best pickup of the year - Isotopes21 - 162 months ago |
• Keep it going Smitty - FLOPITOUT1 - 162 months ago |
• Have Mumford on the pine, seriously considering downgrading him to Bailey and playing this champ all year. Thoughts? - Barlow - 162 months ago |
• I think you know the answer to that 1 now. Unless you have other cover, or you dont have Sandi :@ - FLOPITOUT1 - 162 months ago |
• You're going to cause us a dilema in a few weeks, Zac: too keep for cover or cull for ca$h? - FanBooty - 162 months ago |
• GUN. Will be a superstar in 3 years - fivestarmd - 163 months ago |
• Probably the only reason that stopped him nominating for the draft was that he was going to get a basic young players AFL contract for the first three years, so he's probably made 50k each year in TAC cup, VFL, and similar in the AFL, plus match payments. And it will have allowed his body to develop beautifully, playing TAC cup for an extra year, then VFL against the big AFL reserve ruckmen for a season and now he's in the AFL. GC have a lot of ruckmen, one being Fraser and Gorringe is also very good, but I think Smith will be thereabouts as their second ruck. The sub rule may effect him though. - TheBloods - 166 months ago |
• @Migman. He was taken by them to play TAC Cup (as an overage player, turned 19 that year). Then last year he spent as the no.1 ruck in the VFL, which gave his body evern more time to develop. They basically told him when they got him to TAC Cup for that one season that he would get drafted to the AFL by a club, but they signed on what a young player would get in the AFL (to make up for them stopping him being drafted), so then he played TAC cup, VFL, and now he is at the last year of his contract which finished with a season on an AFL list, and no doubt they may sign him again. But yeah basically what I'm getting at, they signed him as an 18 year and no he's had two years to develo and played against big bodies last year. He weighs a fair bit and will probably put more on, and turns 21 this year, so I wouldnt consider him a 'first year ruck' coz of his year in the VFL. - TheBloods - 166 months ago |
• This kid has only been playing footy for four years! WTF! - migman19 - 166 months ago |
• I think people are being alittle overzealous about this kid being their number 1 backup ruck. First year ruckmen rarely make the grade, unless your M Kreuzer. Hes not going to be gifted games just because hes huge, the Suns could quite easily go with Brennan as a part time ruck to Fraser. - migman19 - 167 months ago |
• I'm thinking of having Josh F. as a second ruckman and this kid as third. I'll probably take another SC ruck as my forth pick, so that if Josh or this kid get injured, I have the next ruck on my bench ready to play. I burned four trades on ruck's last year thanks to injury. It hurt me so. If I could have one wish for 11', it would be to get through the year without using one trade in the ruck! - GJayBee - 167 months ago |
• worth a look next year - Kazakhstan - 170 months ago |
• should be a good 1st reserve ruck - BenW - 172 months ago |