Yeah if anything he's overperforming relative to physical condition. He's been against some great ruckmen, and one iffy set up with Richmond. Definitely ruckmen capable of a few BOG performances each season (Darcy and Witts the last two years are in their teams top 5 most weeks). Conceding 5 or so coaches votes from those 4 games is a miracle. Meanwhile the midfielders have destroyed us. So the deficiency is bigger when it comes to Blicavs, Atkins, Holmes, Parfitt, Bruhn and Knevitt than it is Ceglar vs ruckman.
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Only one problem with this. You haven't factored in the obligatory 'medium term' injury to another frontline player that we will somehow pick up before the Doggies game.
#youknowitmakessense
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Well we better draft a ruck next week then as stanley is a while off.
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To be fair we knew this last year and we didnt bring in a ruck in trade so its our fault not his.
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Why would we.. He was under contract and literally 4/5th in line.
We weren't expecting Rhys, Toby, and Neale all to be hurt at the same time. Also they used SDK there ahead of him..
He literally is a break glass in case of emergency option... Unfortunately that emergency is now present.
The most laughable thing is when people were actually stupid enough to try talk him up last year as our best option
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spot on
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Some light reading.
You will need tp use the slide at the bottom to get Stanley's numbers up for this season.
You will need tp use the slide at the bottom to get Stanley's numbers up for this season.
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I seriously don't get the Ceglar fury. He's been legitimately doing well.
Was crazy, then. And is genuinely even crazier now.
Noticed this week that even Ben Cass on the K-Rock podcast has now acknowledged that Ceglar is not at the races as an AFL-quality ruck these days. For someone who's been a massive Rhys denier for years, that's quite a comedown. And genuinely indicative of how Jon is trying incredibly hard but is miles short of being even an effective placeholder as a #1 ruck these days.
But will they be back, both Dangerfield and Rohan were touted earlier in the week as playing tomorrow, and we see how that turned out.
No great mystery though really, simply a case of perception bias, once a player is in the gun (with some posters) he'll stay there no matter what, could be BOG tomorrow and would still be talked down.
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I've been pleasantly surprised by Ceg's, and pretty sure he's been in my votes the past couple of weeks
Can't fault his intent, and can see he knows what he wants to do, it's unfortunate that he seems to be running on fumes at times and that the end is near
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I haven't seen fury directed at Ceglar.
I've been fairly vocal that I wouldn't pick him but I've got nothing against him. His ruck work is good and when he's around the ball he does well. But his body is obviously cooked and he can't get around the ground at all which makes him a liability as soon as the ball leaves the stoppage.
I also don't see fury directed at Ceglar. Just bemusement at the thought that he was ever going to be more than the player he was when he came to the club. A journeyman ruck with limited mobility, who was winding down his career even before he arrived with us.
It's just greatly disappointing that neither Rhys nor Toby are available at this point, as I would be playing either of them each and every week, long before I considered the current incarnation of Ceglar as an option.
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I think the club saw him as a free hit. They were playing Sav in the ruck ahead of Fort so clearly rate him higher so there was no point getting a pure backup. If Ceglar could get his body right his best footy was very good so I think we recruited him hoping for the 10% chance that would happen.
It's just incredibly unlucky that not only didn't it happen but then all of our other talls went down so we're left playing him despite his body being shot.
I'm a fan of the last line of this article. Not much else to be overjoyed about in all of that.
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Scott engaging in a little bit of black humour
"The complication around his return is more to do with his vision....That is a really uncertain outlook as far as I am told."
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Danger, Duncan and Rohan are pretty big ins vs the Doggies. Gives me more confidence we can beat them.
I phrased it poorly, I meant in a hypothetical with those players back we would be a good chance.
you pick one little slam dunk to be honest. Although Stanley reverting back to 2022 form would be a big step up, it wasn't there before the injury and after this complicated injury who knows. We need midfielders back, that's what has hurt us more.
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Just Danger and Rohan changes the outlook considerably. Duncan would be a huge bonus but even if he doesn't make it, we have a fighting chance with these two... provided we don't lose anyone else this week.
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