The rise.... and RISE of Marc Pittonet

[DJC]

Really? Like the last time he played on Gawn?

It’s not Pittonet on Gawn.  It’s Pittonet and De Koning on Gawn and Grundy with Pitto doing the heavy lifting in the ruck contests and De Koning keeping Gawn accountable around the ground.

Gawn and Grundy are two of the competition’s elite rucks in terms of hitouts, impact around the ground and the threat posed when they go forward.  Pitto and De Koning are better able to neutralise Gawn and Grundy than Jack and De Koning.

[madbluboy]

Sorry I misread your post.

[DJC]

Sorry I misread your post.

Easy to do ?

[madbluboy]

2022/2023

TDK alone: 8 wins 7 losses and a draw
Pittonet alone: 2 wins 6 losses
TDK and Pitt: 7 wins and 4* losses

*One of those losses Pittonet was injured in the first quarter.

[crashlander]

We are a better team with 2 real rucks, instead of 1 and ... hope. Jack tries his guts out, but he isn't a ruckman.

[madbluboy]

Pittonet struggled with one hand but he battled hard and gave TDK the chop out he needed which allowed him to star.

[LP]

Pittonet struggled with one hand but he battled hard and gave TDK the chop out he needed which allowed him to star.

People aren't giving our duo enough credit for the result, they couldn't stop Witts getting his hands on the pill but in combination with our strong midfield we pretty much nullified his influence.

It's a huge achievement, before the weekend Witts was probably in the box seat to be the 2023 AA Ruck, but our Midfield was dominant which negated his tap work and with Pitto bullocking and TDK running Witts couldn't influence the game at all around the ground.

[kruddler]

Personally, i don't think Pittonet was anywhere near ready. Vossy basically ruled him out on Thursday.
But, he was picked. I thought for sure a late out.
But, he played. He was not quite ready though.

A bit rusty early on, and a few shocking 50-50 ruck frees paid against him early didn't help, but he did what he always did and battled his butt off. I guess because we've got the bye coming up we could afford to 'risk it' a little bit.
Thankfully it came off.
Witts is up there with the hardest rucks to play against given his size and strength and we nullified him pretty well.

Forget about hitouts, hitouts to advantage was 13 (Witts) vs 12 to us (6+6 for our 2 rucks).

[ElwoodBlues1]

Personally, i don't think Pittonet was anywhere near ready. Vossy basically ruled him out on Thursday.
But, he was picked. I thought for sure a late out.
But, he played. He was not quite ready though.

A bit rusty early on, and a few shocking 50-50 ruck frees paid against him early didn't help, but he did what he always did and battled his butt off. I guess because we've got the bye coming up we could afford to 'risk it' a little bit.
Thankfully it came off.
Witts is up there with the hardest rucks to play against given his size and strength and we nullified him pretty well.

Forget about hitouts, hitouts to advantage was 13 (Witts) vs 12 to us (6+6 for our 2 rucks).

Just showed again that hitouts are overated...Witts slaughtered our blokes in the tap outs but was next to useless around the ground and without any help he tired as the game went on and TDK was just beating him to the actual contest even forgetting about the ruckwork which to me shows having two ruckman sharing the load is the way to go the majority of the time but you still have your horses for courses days.
Pittonet didnt look fit with his hand but he did his job in staying with Witts and not allowing him to get too involved in general play and that hurt GC's midfield.

[WASurfer]

And TDK went forward too and clunked a few marks and kicked a couple of goals.....that's worth more than the hitouts alone.