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This guy keeps getting better and better

Was among the best today, if not the best and as been thereabouts the past month or so.

He's great around the ground and can also play as a lead up foward or loose across half back.

Is quickly becoming one of our most important players

Imagine a ruck combination of Warnock/Johnson :wub:

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Adzman Redleg

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Loves a goal which also helps. Most ruckman are afraid of a Goal, but Hightower knows where the goals are, and is not worried about having a shot on goal.

Jeff White must be getting concerned. We are still getting beaten week in week out, but our Ruckman are not at fault, and will continue to be given time to develop.

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He is so clean with his pick ups for such a big guy...very impressive

Paul is awesome...tries so bloody hard, but can't someone else help him....WE NEED MORE PAUL JOHNSONs :angry:

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There's one flaw in PJ's game that really prevents him from being an elite ruckman of the competition:

He utterly stinks in the ruck.

:D

He's getting a little better, but he's no Jamar :wacko:

(our ruck stocks= depressing)

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There's one flaw in PJ's game that really prevents him from being an elite ruckman of the competition:

He utterly stinks in the ruck.

Agreed... we need Warnock and/or Natanui to completely release PJ from the ruck duties and instead just be a running key forward that will be an absolute pain in the arse matchup

It would be handy if Jamar or Meesen were even the slightest bit good

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Didn`t Pj win the best in comp in the VFL couple years ago? His a gem. Works hard aswel. great stuff big man.

Yeh he did.

Can i just add Meesen could be very similar to him, 2-3 years ago PJ wasnt much and not look at him

Meesen must have something to be picked up as a No 4 draft pick

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:D

He's getting a little better, but he's no Jamar :wacko:

(our ruck stocks= depressing)

The thing is, I believe he does all the difficult stuff quite well. He is so clean below the knees for a man of his size that it's almost unbelievable, he uses it well and he's learned to take a grab over his head in recent times. It's after the ball has been tapped in the ruck contests that he work is extremely poor -- and it's what Jamar does well. It surely can't be that difficult to bounce a few little blokes away to clear a path for your mids when you are his size.

He's a liability in the ruck. It's a real pity.

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Fair dinkum, PJ is one of the things that keeps me coming to the games. The guy gets better every week and for someone so big he's got really good disposal on him, and is deceptively quick for a ruckman. My only question is whether he can hold down no. 1 centre rucking duties, my gut says no.

That said there is so much positive to him, i won't outlandishly say i picked it from the start, but i was genuinely excited when we got him.

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The thing is, I believe he does all the difficult stuff quite well. He is so clean below the knees for a man of his size that it's almost unbelievable, he uses it well and he's learned to take a grab over his head in recent times.

It's after the ball has been tapped in the ruck contests that he work is extremely poor -- and it's what Jamar does well. It surely can't be that difficult to bounce a few little blokes away to clear a path for your mids when you are his size.

He's a liability in the ruck. It's a real pity.

It's gotta be easier to teach a bloke the 'easy' stuff then it is to run and kick like PJ can.

I thought his physicality was outstanding today. He laid a lot of tackles in close, and used his big body really well. And when he was playing at CHF, was charging in hard off the line and cleaning blokes up in the guts. On at least 2 occassions his clearing a path directly resulted in clearances to teammates. He does need to improve on this aspect of his game when he is rucking, but today was a good step forward. I look forward to seeing the hitout to advantage % stat in the paper tomorrow- i thought he was fairly good at spotting teammates at the centre ruck duels.

If he can perform like he did today consistently, he'll be a very good AFL player.

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There's one flaw in PJ's game that really prevents him from being an elite ruckman of the competition:

He utterly stinks in the ruck.

You are kidding, right!

PJ is one of the best ruckman I've seen, in terms of hit outs to advantage. Whilst guys like White just jump in and touch it, PJ actually guides the ball to our players. He's ranked no.1 at the Dees this year for effective hitouts % I've read.

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Yeh he did.

Can i just add Meesen could be very similar to him, 2-3 years ago PJ wasnt much and not look at him

Meesen must have something to be picked up as a No 4 draft pick

pick 8

I didn't even realise that... that makes 11 first round draft picks on our list!

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