Top 2/5 rucks, 2018 Thread

[Ringo]

Liking my Gawn Martin combo. Hiccup last week though for both as they played one another.

[SilverLion]

Liking my Gawn Martin combo. Hiccup last week though for both as they played one another.

A big ol' +1 to this ;D

[Torpedo10]

Liking my Gawn Martin combo. Hiccup last week though for both as they played one another.

A big ol' +1 to this ;D

Can we say the same for Goldy this week?

[Mat0369]

Liking my Gawn Martin combo. Hiccup last week though for both as they played one another.

You can only beat who you play, but having said that Stef's opposition in the ruck against Port was probably the weakest of any team not named the Bulldogs. He looked awful in round 1, went massive today though and hasn't got a tough run the next couple of weeks.

[RaisyDaisy]

Goldy why? :(

[ubeaut]

Soo Todd Goldstien

???

Knew there was something NQR.
What happens when North play the top teams or he plays another top ruck?
Grundy and Stef proving doubters wrong. So much for Cox and Smith wrecking their output...  I thought Goldy was worth a punt with renewed love/form and no Preuss but feel that Grundy,Stef or even Nank would have been better choices...
Hope he can turn it around.

[tkringle]

Soo Todd Goldstien

???

Knew there was something NQR.
What happens when North play the top teams or he plays another top ruck?
Grundy and Stef proving doubters wrong. So much for Cox and Smith wrecking their output...  I thought Goldy was worth a punt with renewed love/form and no Preuss but feel that Grundy,Stef or even Nank would have been better choices...
Hope he can turn it around.

Bit of a short memory on display here..Martin only scored 63 last week against Gawn!

[Holz]

Soo Todd Goldstien

???

Knew there was something NQR.
What happens when North play the top teams or he plays another top ruck?
Grundy and Stef proving doubters wrong. So much for Cox and Smith wrecking their output...  I thought Goldy was worth a punt with renewed love/form and no Preuss but feel that Grundy,Stef or even Nank would have been better choices...
Hope he can turn it around.

Goldy is priced at 95 and is averaging 95 after having a shocking game. Gave away too many free kicks which made a bad game a terrible game.

Everyone raving about martin but he is going 109 after a monster this week. He had a bad game last week too.

[Adamant]

Rd 1: Towelled up by Witts (scored about 40 points after quarter time)
Rd 2: Beat up an injured Longer and rucked against Josh Bruce for half the game
Rd 3: Destroyed by Gawn

If Scott had any clue at all he would drop this pea-hearted, has-been and play Preuss.

[Holz]

Rd 1: Towelled up by Witts (scored about 40 points after quarter time)
Rd 2: Beat up an injured Longer and rucked against Josh Bruce for half the game
Rd 3: Destroyed by Gawn

If Scott had any clue at all he would drop this pea-hearted, has-been and play Preuss.

Towled up by witts?

He won the hitout battle albiet it marginally.

Witts is a good ruck he had a good batle with sandi today, which sandi won but not by a huge margin.

Gawn is killing everyone no shame in going down to him. Guess stefan martin should have been dropped after last week too right?

[Adamant]

Witts had 25 disposals (15 contested), 4 marks, 5 tackles and was just about the best player on the ground. Probably compensates for the 1 less hitout.

The reason why Goldstein used to be so dominant was due to using his aerobic capacity to outwork his opponent on the spread and around the contest, but he just can't be flowered anymore. The bloke is mentally soft.

[crowls]

Found this on North site.     Scott discussing Goldstein.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-04-11/roos-to-keep-the-faith-in-goldstein#/
NORTH Melbourne will maintain its faith in Todd Goldstein for Saturday night's clash against Carlton, but Kangaroos coach Brad Scott has had "really upfront discussions" with the ruckman after his disappointing performance against Melbourne.

Following a strong game against St Kilda on Good Friday, Goldstein crashed back to earth last Saturday at the MCG as he was soundly beaten in the ruck by Demon Max Gawn.

Gawn was a clear best on ground in the Demons' 37-point win, finishing with 18 possessions, six marks and three score assists, while he had 50 hit-outs to Goldstein's 15.

Scott told reporters in his post-match press conference Gawn had "really got a hold" of Goldstein during Melbourne's win.

However, the North coach confirmed Goldstein would maintain his hold on the Roos' No.1 ruck spot against Carlton, but said the 29-year-old had to rediscover the strengths that had made him the best ruckman in the competition in 2015.



Now dropping Goldy would put a cat amongst the pigeons and totally piss me off.

[jfitty]

Hopefully it gives him a rev up >:(

[crowls]

Hopefully it gives him a rev up >:(

if not better save a trade to cover his donut.   any chance frampton gets a gig,  May have to bring english in or do a long term sideways trade to Witts/Jacobs

[SilverLion]

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if he was dropped at some stage in the year. Scott has shown that he will do that if he feels it's necessary.

One of the reasons I wasn't buying into the hype around him; Preuss is a decent ruckman that will need game time sooner or later. Wouldn't take much for Goldstein to be dropped for a couple of weeks to give him a go.

Of course he could average 120+ from here on out and never look like being dropped, but the possibility is still there.