(06-17-2020, 05:31 AM)flyboy77 date Wrote:you really don't like admitting you're wrong, do you?
It's not about being right or wrong, it's just a discussion that most do not take personally, so relax and join the debate.
Do you think Pittonet is better than Preuss, Marshall, Cameron or Smith, if you do what is the basis for that assessment?
FWIW, last season Marshall was probably amongst the BoG against us twice, putting SpecialK and Levi to the sword! Even so Ratten now has Marshall playing 2nd fiddle to Ryder. Of course in those games we played SpecialK under-done or injured with only Levi as a viable backup, and Levi as a ruck option is not up to it. McKay was next to worthless as well, the only part of McKay that is ruck is his height and there the analogy ends!
Are any of those listed above at the current or previous levels of SpecialK, Gawn, Grundy, Naitanui or any other 1st ruck?
If not then how are they viable replacements for a 1st ruck, ever?
What's the point of spending time developing supplementary types, shouldn't we be trying to find a genuine 1st ruck replacement, someone the equivalent of a fit SpecialK? At this stage there seems to be only one hope on our list, De Koning.
When fans post about have a solo first ruck, I doubt they are thinking about having a Pittonet, Marshall, Cameron, Casboult, etc., etc., type 1st rucking in a premiership hunt. I suspect they are thinking about Gawn, Grundy, Naitanui, martin or Nankervis type, unambiguously 1st rucks.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"