Originally Posted by climbo
Something for the southerners to help me understand.
AFL ruckmen, how sucky is that position? I just don't get it.
Seriously, why do they bother with them? They can never get a clean hitout, why not just spoil the opposing guy and wait around the edges for the ball as it comes out? Tall guys are usually slow, you could play a smaller faster bloke in that position.
A good ruckman [tall,bigger player] is to WIN the the ruck and dispatch the ball to a team mate ,a rover or crummer, to get the ball towards the goals involving foward players.The ruckman is only for the bounce downs and boundry throw ins.\Also handy when theres a few punches thrown in a brawl.
