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TRAINING: Wednesday 7th December 2022

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in Melbourne Demons

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18 hours ago, rjay said:

Paddy Ryder was 196cm.

Amazing to think he was still a more than competitive ruckman in this era.

He was smart, skilled and mobile - and a good kick. Those qualities will overcome height always 

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    16 hours ago, monoccular said:

    But some areas like biff behind the play and elbows to the head have largely disappeared which would leave the likes of Nichols, Dyer, Matthews, Rhys-Jones missing a lot of games. 

    I must say I had always thought that Wise was much taller.  He was the first that I can recall who, like Jimmy later, rucked all day.

    To be fair, those players would presumably have modified their playing style if they played to today's standard. And all were good enough* to play by today's rules so wouldn't necessarily have missed a lot of games.

    *I'm assuming that Jack Dyer was good enough. I'm old enough to remember the other three as players, but I'm not ancient enough to remember Jack Dyer who played his last game in 1949.

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    Just looked at the training picks for today at Casey and was amazed at the leap Kyah Farris-White has even with the bag there he was much higher than Gawn with Grundy not leaping at the bag at all maybe he still does not want to risk injury before Xmas.

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    19 minutes ago, durango said:

    Just looked at the training picks for today at Casey and was amazed at the leap Kyah Farris-White has even with the bag there he was much higher than Gawn with Grundy not leaping at the bag at all maybe he still does not want to risk injury before Xmas.

    Grundy is not a high leaping ruckman - from what I've seen of him he tends to use his body to block the drop zone and rely on his judgement of the ball dropping to out position his opponents very different to a Jackson, Draper etc

    Grundy does his best work at boundary throw ins and other stoppages rather than centre bounces IMO

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    4 hours ago, Clayton spirit said:

    No training today it seems 

    I went to Gosch’s. The players went to Casey 

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    Just now, DeeSpencer said:

    I went to Gosch’s. The players went to Casey 

    How could they have gotten that sooooo wrong 😃

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