Except the whole team getting ■■■■ on, mids not getting the ball, defence being inundated and forwards starved of opportunity. Yeah nah nothing to lose at all
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Play him against St Kilda and Carlton.
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Hope he’s prepared to add about 10kg to his frame to compete better in the middle.
Marshall and TDK will destroy him
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Oh noes!
It’s interesting looking across various threads. In the Brad Scott related discussions we see " why isn’t he playing Vigo, you can’t give him credit for playing the kids if he rushes back to Goldstein…".
And here, it’s “he’s no good, he’s not ready, make him play 4 years of VFL (!??!! Lol !!!) , he’s terrible, got smashed” .
As a collective, we’re entirely two faced and contradictory.
In his first game, Vigo offered some pretty good impact around the ground and wasn’t monstered outright physically as much by Jackson in the ruck duals. Last night, Briggs is an entirely different style of ruck, it’s pretty much ALL physicality and controlling early space. And Vigo couldn’t have an impact around the ground either. It’s fine, it happens. He’ll get another game this year, I can’t see Goldstein getting through the final 7 without a chop out. If we can be tactical with it, run him against a more athletic type ruck. Doesn’t matter which level he plays, he’ll learn something new every match. He’s very promising and hasn’t even turned 20 yet. One day, he’s likely gonna flog the likes of Briggs with agility and around the ground versatility. Tracking nicely.
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How dare you come on a blitz thread sprouting some sensible input.
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Well beaten last night, but I’m not sure how it’s legal in the ruck to continually push your opponent away while the ball is in the air.
Also, they have to do something to clean up ruck contests. I’m sick of watching them wrestle.
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It’s horrible to watch
No one jumps anymore
Just lock arms and wrestle
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I actually like the way he moves and his effort . to me he looks like he’s got very good natural skills and is a fierce competitor
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Needs to not play against the monsters
Agreed.
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He did get smashed. That’s hardly a condemnation of the bloke. It was simply what was happening.
I like him, he plays very well in the VFL and can play either ruck or forward.
I think he has potential and I like that we are playing him this year and we should keep playing him. This season is a write-off so playing him is good experience for him, and he will get better for it, and doesn’t really cost us, we are going to lose anyway.
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Vigo!
He was always going to get smashed against a bigger, stronger and much more experienced ruckman, but gee he was hard done by with the constant blocking and being bumped off the contest as the ball was being bounced.
No free for you Vigo.
And then to have one paid against him and resultant goal for an errant arm on the shoulder. 
Tough night for the young bloke.
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This is what you get playing players before they are even slightly ready.
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He wouldn’t have been played if Bryan and Draper never went down and then their grandfather had to fill in for them.
He definitely showed in the VFL week after week he could match it with mature rucks, so it was still worth giving him a taste of it.
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Both the vasentini boys have similar attributes and both will be decent AFL players
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Gee you’d almost think there were some sort of “injury crisis” at the club meaning a lot of young guys are getting games when they wouldn’t be even remotedly considered ready.
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I also don’t care if he gets smashed if it helps him. Sometimes a young ruck gets absolutely run over. Young players get asked to match up against much better, stronger, more experienced opponents and lose badly. Tim English’s second game as a first round pick he led the bulldogs with 8 hitouts while Sinclair and Naismith combined for 64. It happens.
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