Rix was absolutely shocking tonight

[Moccha]

Why did they play this dud?

McEvoy would have been so much better. At least he can kick and mark. I just don't get it. Absolutely got smashed out of the middle. Blake is 6 inches shorter than him yet he's a better ruckman.

[Statsman]

Rix offered absolutely nothing in the ruck contests and even less around the ground. Surely we'd have been better off getting a senior game into McEvoy. Heck, we'd have been better off giving Jack Steven a chance in the ruck.

[savatage]

All 3 of our "rucks" tonight were really bad. So many contests they didn't make or attempted to make little effort. How badly we miss King & Gardiner.

All that talk of McEvoy not being ready....no doubt accurate - but would he have done any worse than we got tonight? Doubtful.

[Buckets]

Why did they play this dud?

McEvoy would have been so much better. At least he can kick and mark. I just don't get it. Absolutely got smashed out of the middle. Blake is 6 inches shorter than him yet he's a better ruckman.

What?????? Rix played!!!!!!! s*** must have missed seeing him! How did he go?

[The_Dud]

why are we singling out players

the whole team what SHITE tonight

i can only think of 2 who can hold there heads up high, being Roo and Lenny, the usual suspects

[LENNY LEADS THE WAY]

Best pies of rix play was when dumbass russel i mean dwayne russel said Rix is a lady's man.

Coz he was playing on lade.

LADEY'S MAN

oh god what a crack up

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eastern]

Why did they play this dud?

McEvoy would have been so much better. At least he can kick and mark. I just don't get it. Absolutely got smashed out of the middle. Blake is 6 inches shorter than him yet he's a better ruckman.

Lade & Brogan are the meanest ruck combo in the AFL. They would have killed McEvoy simply because he aint ready for afl....... YET !!

[savatage]

Best pies of rix play was when dumbass russel i mean dwayne russel said Rix is a lady's man.

Coz he was playing on lade.

LADEY'S MAN

oh god what a crack up

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Was ready to punch the projector when I heard him continually repeat that joke. We get it Dwayne. It's s***.

[saint66au]

Why did they play this dud?

McEvoy would have been so much better. At least he can kick and mark. I just don't get it. Absolutely got smashed out of the middle. Blake is 6 inches shorter than him yet he's a better ruckman.

Lade & Brogan are the meanest ruck combo in the AFL. They would have killed McEvoy simply because he aint ready for afl....... YET !!

Exactly...that knee in the ribs that Kosi got would have chopped McEvoy in half

[thehandbrake]

Thought Rixy was at least serviceable tonight. He had a crack.

Brogan and Lade certainly didn't tear us apart like they have in the past. There are bigger problems in this side than Michael Rix.

[Sam23]

he was f****** terrible.

should never play AFL again,

[savatage]

Thought Rixy was at least serviceable tonight. He had a crack.

I've been patient with Rix but I think you're being very, very kind with that critique.

[mick13]

McEvoy wouldn't have made much of a difference. And probably would have come out of the game physically and mentally destroyed...lol.

[Eastern]

he was f****** terrible.

should never play AFL again,

And probably won't !!

[Moccha]

Rix was fair dinkum shithouse. Has no brains, doesn't run to any contests. At least Blake has a crack. We were one man down with this guy in the team. A dud of the highest order. Nick Stone would have taken Rix to the cleaners tonight.

[saintsRrising]

Look at least Rix played up to his ability..

Dal could not say that...

[thehandbrake]

Sav, I'm not saying Rix was in our best, but what did you expect from him tonight? He provided a contest, threw his body around a bit, and did some ok things around the ground.

What was it that made him so terrible?

[Statsman]

What was it that made him so terrible?

The fact that he didn't make much of a contest, didn't really throw his body around and did nothing around the ground.

[Moccha]

Sav, I'm not saying Rix was in our best, but what did you expect from him tonight? He provided a contest, threw his body around a bit, and did some ok things around the ground.

What was it that made him so terrible?

Is 2 handballs racking up the stats?

[Enrico_Misso]

Had we had King and Gardiner we wouldn't have been smashed in the middle.
And might probably have won the game.

But tonight proves that Rix will be delisted in October.
Or perhaps we can trade him to Carlton

[savatage]

Sav, I'm not saying Rix was in our best, but what did you expect from him tonight? He provided a contest, threw his body around a bit, and did some ok things around the ground.

What was it that made him so terrible?

I expected him to make every contest - he didn't make a number of them, Lade was uncontested. Easy takeaway. That's just plain s*** & lazy.

[thehandbrake]

No one said he was racking up the stats, but what exactly do you expect from him?

Rix is not in our best 22. King, Gardiner, Kosi and even Blake are all used in the ruck before him. He is never, ever going to set a game alight, but he can provide a contest, which is what he did.

Put it this way- Rix is not the reason we lost tonight. Vent your anger at a worthy target. You've got plenty to choose from with tonight's effort.

[savatage]

No one said he was racking up the stats, but what exactly do you expect from him?

Rix is not in our best 22. King, Gardiner, Kosi and even Blake are all used in the ruck before him. He is never, ever going to set a game alight, but he can provide a contest, which is what he did.

Put it this way- Rix is not the reason we lost tonight. Vent your anger at a worthy target. You've got plenty to choose from with tonight's effort.

Like I said, I just expected him to make every contest myself, not sure if anyone was expecting him to rack up 30 possessions or something Rix is not THE reason we lost....but he sure didn't help our cause.

[Statsman]

No one said he was racking up the stats, but what exactly do you expect from him?

I expect nothing of Rix and he lived up to expectation.

I agree though, his inability to influence the match wasn't a factor. It was the inability of 6-10 of his team mates to influence the match that saw us lose.

[Moccha]

No one said he was racking up the stats, but what exactly do you expect from him?

Rix is not in our best 22. King, Gardiner, Kosi and even Blake are all used in the ruck before him. He is never, ever going to set a game alight, but he can provide a contest, which is what he did.

Put it this way- Rix is not the reason we lost tonight. Vent your anger at a worthy target. You've got plenty to choose from with tonight's effort.

He's just a dumb footballer. he let his man continually run free. He doesn't drop back into defence to help his defence, he doesn't run forward to help his forwards. I can't remember one hitout out of the centre to the midfielders advantage. That is where the game is set up.