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Coach The Lobbe Lounge - Ruck Coach and Head of Development
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Exciting times if you're young, taller than 170cm and on Port Adelaide's list
- Jan 21, 2013
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Poor bloke, cops his fair share and I wish we took the trade last year but doesn't deserve this.
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- May 11, 2013
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Ha. No its not. We shouldn't have been so daft to not have drafted a ruckman when we had a chance. This situation was always a possibility but we chose to show nil foresight. ****ing dumb.
On the positive side Howard should get many games.
Get well soon lobbes.
This is what worries me.
The club have no one but themselves to blame for this situation.
People had been pointing out for years that our list was short of ruckmen. Last year, however, it seemed we had finally struck a reasonable balance. We had a developing ruckman in Frampton, two ready-made ruckmen in Lobbe and Ryder, and a serviceable, albeit injury-prone backup ruckman in Redden. Given the waning form of Lobbe, a long-term suspension looming for Ryder, and the question marks hanging over Redden's longevity, it was obvious that we needed to recruit at least one backup ruckman over the off-season. We didn't need to unearth the next Gawn or Goldstein, merely a player who would be able to support Frampton in the SANFL and step up to AFL level should the worst ever occur.
Instead, what did we do? We delisted Redden and recruited no ruckmen in the rookie draft, gambling that the AFL would gift us a top-up player. Call it arrogance, call it delusion, call it what you want - because of this, we have been left with one developing ruckman to carry the load in the SANFL, and four part-time ruckmen to carry the load in the AFL, for half of the season.
Jeepers. It wasn't dogsh!t park's surface that did it, was it?
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You are not on the same planet as the rest of us mate.
Hope the Lobster mends quickly, down on form but not out and does not deserve this, he carried this team in ruck on his own in 2014.
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Where did you hear/read this?
they said it on 9 news tonight mate.
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OK, thanks. Is it believable or just speculation?
until its scanned its clearly speculation, but he was track suited up after half time today so not positive ...
- Nov 6, 2014
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Yes. People on here have short memories. Still knocking him while he's down.
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Carn, pick 11 was always sex.
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Ryder, Lobbe, Frampton and Howard.
Granted no one expected Howard to be a ruck after list lodgement 3 but he's been rucking all year and could be considered the 4th ruck.
Every club that loses options 1, 2 & 3 would be in the same position we're in now.
I highly doubt we didn't draft a rookie ruck because we gambled that we would have a top up. The gamble was that any punishment for Ryder would be minimal and even then I suspect this is why the club was strong on keeping Lobbe.
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I'd argue the contrary and say they made his entire career by turning him into a ruck because there's no way in hell he'd make it as an AFL forward
I would argue there is no way in hell hes a AFL ruckman. He was a first round pick for us in a poor draft. The problem is the club refused to obtain any other options apart from lobbe. We could have got Jacobs for a second round pick and this was after he played the game of his life in a AFL final. The club closed there eyes to anything going around like they did after we drafted Butcher. Years of drafting bum flankers will catch up with you. I have never been a lobbe fan but you cant blame him for our lack of bigman.
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Terrible news for Lobbe - hopefully he can bounce back and get back out there by the end of the season.
I was pretty surprised we let Redden go and didn't at least rookie him, would've felt a lot more secure in this instance.
I was pretty surprised we let Redden go and didn't at least rookie him, would've felt a lot more secure in this instance.
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