The rise.... and RISE of Marc Pittonet

[crashlander]

After last nite's debacle, I'm well & truly back on this subject (amongst others).

TDK is just a very dumb footballer, does all of the hard work on the goal-line to touch the ball before going through only to punch it straight back into play to a Crows player who kicks the simple goal. Why didn't he do the team orientated & disciplined thing and just get a touch on it and force it through for a point so we can reset from the kick-in ??

You can argue about having or not having ability but the big difference is between the ears and sadly, Tom is not going to get any better than what we are seeing now. 

Put the contract extension off till the end of the season and then take him to the trade table and extract maximum value whilst we can.

As Brother Elwood pointed out, you don't need to pick up serviceable ruckmen with first rounders so there is bound to another good replacement somewhere in the mix.

Tom's biggest problem is that he never rucks to his strengths, always to his weaknesses. He has a very good leap, but you rarely see it. Opposition rucks know they can out-bustle him, so that's the way they play. Tom needs to make the contests on his terms, rather than allowing the opposition to determine how the ruck duels will be fought. if he doesn't, then he'll never be the ruckman we need to take us to the premiership.