The opening three rounds of the 2018 AFL season have reminded us of the value of the best ruckman in the competition.

Malcolm Blight - a Hall of Fame Legend and the only man to have won a Brownlow, Jock McHale (Premiership coach), Coleman and Premiership medal - is one such believer that bonafide A-grade ruckmen are still match winners.

When the Western Bulldogs won their fairytale flag in 2016 with Jordan Roughead as their number one ruckman and Tom Boyd rolling through, epitaphs were soon written across the league for our game's tallest men.

Roughead averaged a little over 15 hit outs per game that season while spending time up forward and also down back.