05-22-2023, 08:20 AM
(05-22-2023, 08:04 AM)LP link Wrote:I get fans think based on your posts you (@Kruddler) are a Pitto booster, but I realise what you are really doing is protecting SoJ. You need Pitto 1st rucking because if TDK plays and rests forward it won't be Cripps getting the chop from the F50 extra tall role, we can all see it coming, SoJ gets squeezed out, this is the way.
If we do what fans want and put a bullet in McGovern to keep SoJ via some weird and speculative reshuffle , we might was well shoot our own foot.
FFS, now some are calling for Weiters head, and SoJ just roles on unsupervised! :o
Personally I hope I'm wrong, I hope SoJ sticks fat at Carlton, comes good and enables us to rub his old man's face in it, but it's a wish not an expectation!
Who hurt you LP? Who hurt you??
Your trust issues run deep.
I don't know how i can say it any other way, maybe i'll try heiroglyphics??
I compare Pittonets stats because it is the ONLY stat that compares apples with apples.
If he plays 10%, or 100% of the ruck, it doesn't matter.
If he has a backup ruck that is SOJ, TDK, or Eddie Betts, it doesn't matter.
The ruck stats are able to be looked at for every contest he is in, and see the result of every contest he is in.
You cannot do that with anyone else in any other position.
This is a fact i found out years ago, and when i looked into it, i was pleasantly suprised how well he was at it. Further to my surprise, he continues to not only keep up that high standard, but improve upon it. He is in the elite category for hitouts to advantage based on % of ruck contests he is in.
This is NOT a 4-year 'long-con' of misdirection to provide some kind of shield for SOS.
I reckon if you go back a couple years you'll see me saying he was not in our best 22. Probably said TDK was.
Now, unfortunately TDK has stagnated and SOS has proven to be somehwat handy around the ground by comparison....while not performing only slightly worse in the ruck.
Sometimes you do WAY too much reading between the lines.
Sometimes, you completely ignore whats written.
This is one of those times.