In truth we are bigger, greedier versions of the same eating, shitting, rutting ruck, hell-bent on disguising from somebody, if only from a three-year-old, that pretty much all we do is eat and shit and rut. The secret is there is no secret. that is what we really wish to keep fom our kids, and it's suppression is the true collusion of adulthood...
Quotes about ruck (8 Quotes)
Around the ruck they certainly defend differently, but having watched just that one trial, it's hard to say precisely what they're aiming at.
I was the sort of loose forward who lay contentedly on the bottom of a ruck, composing sonnets on the one hand and, on another plane, contemplating applying the squirrel grip to an opponent.
Once we settled down we were good value for the win. He got trapped on the wrong side of the ruck, and there was a pretty long queue to give him a kicking I suppose.
We tried to attack around the ruck. There was a concentration in trying to go up the guts.
The middle of our ruck was at times very, very poor. Of four tries in the second half, three of them were straight down the middle of the ruck.
Peter was unlucky not to play in round one and then it has been difficult to make a change since, but he will play this week in the ruck and we have got confidence in him because he played well in most of the last 10 games last year.
I don't have much to do with it, ... Cam just places himself where he wants to go. We put him in the forward line and he was getting the ball all over the ground. He was second ruck to Steven today and they carried the ruck duties fairly well. I'm happy with his form.