Michael Rix to play for Subiaco
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Michael Rix to play for Subiaco
News from this morning's West Australian re Rixy. I didn't know B4E had moved to WA.
Ex-Saint Rix in Lions den
13th May 2009, 9:30 WST
Subiaco’s premiership defence has received a massive boost with the club yesterday announcing it had signed former St Kilda ruckman Michael Rix.
The signing will bolster Subiaco’s depleted ruck division and comes as fellow Lions ruckman Luke Newick gets closer to a return to the league side after missing five weeks with a calf muscle injury.
Subiaco coach Scott Watters said Rix, 28, would sign a minimum twoyear contract with the club and would complement Newick and developing big man Scott Douglas.
Rix will make his debut for the Lions in Saturday’s reserves match against Perth at Medibank Stadium and could be selected for his first league match straight after the State clash against South Australia the following week.
“He’d almost come straight into being the best ruckman in the WAFL competition,â€
Ex-Saint Rix in Lions den
13th May 2009, 9:30 WST
Subiaco’s premiership defence has received a massive boost with the club yesterday announcing it had signed former St Kilda ruckman Michael Rix.
The signing will bolster Subiaco’s depleted ruck division and comes as fellow Lions ruckman Luke Newick gets closer to a return to the league side after missing five weeks with a calf muscle injury.
Subiaco coach Scott Watters said Rix, 28, would sign a minimum twoyear contract with the club and would complement Newick and developing big man Scott Douglas.
Rix will make his debut for the Lions in Saturday’s reserves match against Perth at Medibank Stadium and could be selected for his first league match straight after the State clash against South Australia the following week.
“He’d almost come straight into being the best ruckman in the WAFL competition,â€
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Ummm would that be the game where he rucked against Lade and Brogan the whole night and certainly wasnt the reason we lost?perfectionist wrote:Round 6 v Port. We lost. He had one kick, I think it was to his backside.Legendary wrote:Nup, played a game or two for us early last year.saintly wrote:wasn't he delisted at the end of 2007? not 2008?
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Rixy was a champion at VFL level, which is why we took a punt on him as a ruck back-up, and the WAFL is a notch below VFL.Seaford_Saint wrote:All I can say is the WAFL must be in a bloody awful state if it's universally recognised RIX will be the dominant ruckman in the competition over there!!!
Fair call to say that he would be one of the dominant ruckmen over there.
Good bloke too....... wish him well.
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IMO Rucking at AFL level is the hardest position to learn.GrumpyOne wrote:Rixy was a champion at VFL level, which is why we took a punt on him as a ruck back-up, and the WAFL is a notch below VFL.Seaford_Saint wrote:All I can say is the WAFL must be in a bloody awful state if it's universally recognised RIX will be the dominant ruckman in the competition over there!!!
Fair call to say that he would be one of the dominant ruckmen over there.
Good bloke too....... wish him well.
You watch these tall, young, highly touted kids come in... and suddenly being 200cm isn't enough, they have to learn to leap, and leap into equally sized mountains leaping the other way.
And that's just the first 3 seconds of being on the ground.
They've got to support the midfield, drop back to support the defense, push forward to stretch the oppositions talls, and match up against monsters.
Rix will head to the WAFL with AFL fitness, AFL tap experience, and experience taking on those monsters - even if most of those matchups were wins for the other guy.
If you're a better ruck than Rix, you're probably already on an AFL list. Best of luck to the guy... he wasn't quite good enough at anything to be an AFL player, but he was easy to like.
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