The rise.... and RISE of Marc Pittonet

[kruddler]

I was replying to the post game, but thought it'd be best here....

Just watched the Voss presser. Said Tom De Koning was ill earlier in the week and couldn't train.

Did we miss him today?

Did anyone at any point in time think, "Geez, i wish we had TDK right now"

For all the talk about 2 rucks, TDK vs Jack etc.....we didn't miss him one bit.

Guess how many ruck contests Jack Silvagni was in today?
*tick tock tick tock*
Times up!
Answer: ZERO. Did not contest a single throw-in, ball up or centre bounce.

FWIW, Pittonet dominated - 61 ruck contests, 27 hitouts, but a massive 18 hitouts to advantage!
But how does that compare? Well TDK has had a total of 24 hitouts to advantage in 5 full games this year.

For those playing at home....
Young took 13 ruck contests - 7 hitouts and 4 hitouts to advantage!
Harry took 4 ruck contests - 1 hitout, none to advantage
Cripps took 1, for 1 and none.

Pittonet rucks for 77% of the ruck contests. From the other 23% our 'hacks' 18 ruck contests, won half with 9 hitouts, and 4 went to advantage.
TDK last week had 57 ruck contests, 17 hitouts, but only 4 went to advantage.
Our backups were as effective as TDK, despite have 1/3 the amount of attempts TDK had last week.

Surely, you can see what i've been saying that TDK offers us little that we cannot get elsewhere and until he steps up and lives up to his athletic freakish abilities, he is not worth playing.