Michael Rix to play for Subiaco

st.byron · Post: # 738265Post **st.byron** » Wed 13 May 2009 1:13pm

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

Subiacoâ€™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 Subiacoâ€™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 Saturdayâ€™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.

â€œHeâ€™d almost come straight into being the best ruckman in the WAFL competition,â€

saintly · Post: # 738272Post **saintly** » Wed 13 May 2009 1:23pm

wasn't he delisted at the end of 2007? not 2008?

Legendary · Post: # 738278Post **Legendary** » Wed 13 May 2009 1:35pm

saintly wrote:wasn't he delisted at the end of 2007? not 2008?

Nup, played a game or two for us early last year.

BringBackMadDog · Wed 13 May 2009 1:36pm

[quote]Heâ€™d almost come straight into being the best ruckman in the WAFL competition,â€

barks4eva · Post: # 738305Post **barks4eva** » Wed 13 May 2009 2:26pm

RIX ROX RUX

Seaford_Saint · Wed 13 May 2009 2:39pm

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!!!

perfectionist · Wed 13 May 2009 2:40pm

Legendary wrote:
saintly wrote:wasn't he delisted at the end of 2007? not 2008?
Nup, played a game or two for us early last year.

Round 6 v Port. We lost. He had one kick, I think it was to his backside.

sunsaint · Post: # 738325Post **sunsaint** » Wed 13 May 2009 3:17pm

perfectionist wrote:
Legendary wrote:
saintly wrote:wasn't he delisted at the end of 2007? not 2008?
Nup, played a game or two for us early last year.
Round 6 v Port. We lost. He had one kick, I think it was to his backside.

Ummm would that be the game where he rucked against Lade and Brogan the whole night and certainly wasnt the reason we lost?

JT · Post: # 738349Post JT » Wed 13 May 2009 4:16pm

Rixy was at the game on Monday night and is a passionate saints man!

All the best at Subi. He is probably a bit stiff that Brisbane didn't pick him up in the pre-season draft as he would playin for them at the moment given there ruck problems.

GrumpyOne · Post: # 738355Post **GrumpyOne** » Wed 13 May 2009 4:27pm

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!!!

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.

Fair call to say that he would be one of the dominant ruckmen over there.

Good bloke too....... wish him well.

Eastern · Post: # 738376Post **Eastern** » Wed 13 May 2009 4:49pm

There are massive traffic jams around Hawthorn. It seems that the entire suburb is grid locked by removal vans

!!

BAM! (shhhh) · Wed 13 May 2009 5:11pm

GrumpyOne wrote:
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!!!
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.

Fair call to say that he would be one of the dominant ruckmen over there.

Good bloke too....... wish him well.

IMO Rucking at AFL level is the hardest position to learn.

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.

perfectionist · Wed 13 May 2009 5:32pm

sunsaint wrote:...Ummm would that be the game where he rucked against Lade and Brogan the whole night and certainly wasnt the reason we lost?

Yes and No. Both Kosi and SAK rucked as well. Their rucks beat ours. He still only had one kick.

nabby7 · Post: # 739543Post **nabby7** » Fri 15 May 2009 11:29pm

rix in WA
mwhahahah
sexcellent

SainterK · Post: # 739564Post **SainterK** » Sat 16 May 2009 12:23am

Good luck to Rix

markinUSA · Post: # 739585Post **markinUSA** » Sat 16 May 2009 7:19am

Good luck to him, and every other person who has ever played for the Saints.

I hope he really shines there.

Griggsy · Post: # 739587Post **Griggsy** » Sat 16 May 2009 7:26am

markinUSA wrote:Good luck to him, and every other person who has ever played for the Saints.

Barry Hall?

Moccha · Post: # 739641Post **Moccha** » Sat 16 May 2009 1:51pm

nabby7 wrote:rix in WA
mwhahahah
sexcellent

In your best version of a New Zealand accent you mean sixy Rixy.