The rise.... and RISE of Marc Pittonet

[ElwoodBlues1]

Personally, i don't think Pittonet was anywhere near ready. Vossy basically ruled him out on Thursday.
But, he was picked. I thought for sure a late out.
But, he played. He was not quite ready though.

A bit rusty early on, and a few shocking 50-50 ruck frees paid against him early didn't help, but he did what he always did and battled his butt off. I guess because we've got the bye coming up we could afford to 'risk it' a little bit.
Thankfully it came off.
Witts is up there with the hardest rucks to play against given his size and strength and we nullified him pretty well.

Forget about hitouts, hitouts to advantage was 13 (Witts) vs 12 to us (6+6 for our 2 rucks).

Just showed again that hitouts are overated...Witts slaughtered our blokes in the tap outs but was next to useless around the ground and without any help he tired as the game went on and TDK was just beating him to the actual contest even forgetting about the ruckwork which to me shows having two ruckman sharing the load is the way to go the majority of the time but you still have your horses for courses days.
Pittonet didnt look fit with his hand but he did his job in staying with Witts and not allowing him to get too involved in general play and that hurt GC's midfield.