The rise.... and RISE of Marc Pittonet

[shawny]

Without revisiting the flaws of the hitouts to advantage statistic, it’s worth noting that Pitto loses more ruck contests than he wins.

While those hitouts may not all result in opposition clearances, there’s a good chance that, with a decent midfield, many of them will.

Agree.

Ruckman are not just there for hitouts to advantage they need to provide something valuable once the tap work has finished. Pit is ok as a block or big body in the contest but that’s where it ends. He takes little to no marks around the ground is a clumsy forward that gets in the way of our big marking forwards and then even if the ball luckily lands in his hands he can’t kick for goal with any accuracy. Also as the dump long kick out target again he is below par.

Agree he’s tap work is good but that’s when it ends sadly. His bloody clumsy in contests and I’m not sure how he ranks against others but seems to give away too many frees with dumb holds or pushes.

Needs to improve dramatically around the ground for me to rate him against the better ruckman in the comp.