As the lone ruck in the first part of last SANFL season, Peter Ladhams averaged 112 fantasy points with 28 hits outs and 22 disposals. When Sam Hayes returned from injury to join him in tandem, those rates fell to 82, 17 and 17 respectively. He was given five senior games in the second half as well to tandem with Paddy Ryder, producing one impressive game against Sydney and four not so good. The departures of Ryder and Billy Frampton mean that Ladhams is now second in the ruck depth chart behind Scott Lycett, assuming that the Power don't decide to throw one of their key forwards in the middle. He looms as an interesting handcuff to Lycett, whose job security is not 100% as evidenced by Ladhams being used over him for a while. However, his scoring when in tandem is not at startable levels.
Ladhams in the van
As the lone ruck in the first part of last SANFL season, Peter Ladhams averaged 112 fantasy points with 28 hits outs and 22 disposals. When Sam Hayes returned from injury to join him in tandem, those rates fell to 82, 17 and 17 respectively. He was given five senior games in the second half as well to tandem with Paddy Ryder, producing one impressive game against Sydney and four not so good. The departures of Ryder and Billy Frampton mean that Ladhams is now second in the ruck depth chart behind Scott Lycett, assuming that the Power don't decide to throw one of their key forwards in the middle. He looms as an interesting handcuff to Lycett, whose job security is not 100% as evidenced by Ladhams being used over him for a while. However, his scoring when in tandem is not at startable levels.
Just a growing Ladhams
On his second year on the Power rookie list, Peter Ladhams averaged 12 hit outs and 10 possessions with 10 goals from his 14 matches. Ladhams is at least a year or two away from developing into whatever he is going to become. This is one Pokemon you don't gotta catch.
Growing pains by Ladhams
Without ever threatening to make the senior side, Peter Ladhams kicked a goal per game in the SANFL as a ruck/forward mostly in support of Billy Frampton. Like the vast majority of players of his type, Ladhams will take a while to come on as a player, and Port have enough time to let him develop further at lower level.
