2018 Rd 13: Pre Game Pressure: Carlton vs Fremantle at Etihad

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and thats why hitouts to advantage is the only stat that matters.

Hitouts itself is irrelevent.

I was adding weight to an earlier point you had made ;D

It's true though
It's meaningless who gets their hand on the ball first as a statistic.

We think back to some of the work of great ruckmen of the past and they could virtually put it straight into the hands of their rovers and mids....or to a position where they could run onto it.

But the congestion and tagging of the modern game makes it much harder to direct the ball and then for some advantage to be made of that possession...
If they're going to keep the stat it should at least be dependent on a teammate gaining possession for it to count.
While it may go nowhere after that, it at least demonstrates the skill of the ruckman.