The rise.... and RISE of Marc Pittonet

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Says plenty, clubs over pay for potential....and we should cash in.

Look at all the 'million dollar men' over the past decade. How many have earned that?

Club's have to pay for the resource that helps them achieve a goal, the rarer that resource the more you pay, it's not always about individual ability or brilliance, of course we get extreme brilliance is ultra-rare as such players like Judd exist.

The type of aerobic agile ruck role that a TDK, Jackson or Blicsavs can play turns out to be very very rare, the Pitto type are far more common.

GWS tried to turn Cameron into an agile ruck to get him working in parallel to Mumford, it's a tell. We should be making sure we keep TDK to get a similar parallel setup with Pitto, of course in the long term GWS worked out that Cameron is far far better as a forward than burning him in the ruck. These are once a decade type players, Melbourne were dead lucky they ended up with two in Gawn and Jackson, it basically won them a flag and they were so desperate to replace that type they took on Grundy's wage to keep their advantage.

To me having one ruck to do the bullocking work is far more important than have a tap dominant ruck, but only if you have the flipside agile ruck in support. It's a complimentary pair that make it work not the individual, focusing on the worth of the individual misses the point.