The rise.... and RISE of Marc Pittonet

[kruddler]

You're not think straight, do the math the available bench minutes do not change whether we run 1 or 2 rucks, the small percentage of extra time 1 ruck might stay on the field doesn't make much difference to the rest of the bench at all, it's a smokescreen, a misdirection, because the rucks are resting in the pockets, they come off the ground when they finish a rotation no matter who does it! :o

The only gain is that perhaps the solo ruck spends less time on the bench, and that few minutes of less time on the bench get added to the allocation for all other players. It doesn't necessarily mean there will be more rotations available either, because we would need to the ruck to stay on the ground when the ruck rotation ends for that to happen, and they don't!

There is always 4 on the bench, if you make a 10% change in ground time of one player the reduced bench time gets distributed across all other rotations. How many a game, 70 rotations on average?

The deception in your assertion is to imply when we have Pitto solo the others who have a part in 2nd ruck rotations won't come off the ground, it's a furphy!

I'd much rather Pitto and TDK resting on the bench and coming in fresh, than have Young, Harry or SoJ coming into the ruck rested and delivering a B Grade result, maybe even a D Grade result.

In any case, Pitto is the player who mostly single role, TDK can ruck before rotating forward to give Harry or Charlie a chop out, and then come off.

I don't need to do the math. The math is already done. You are not looking at it correctly.

When 2 rucks play, their individual TOG decreases. Thus, more time on the bench.
When a part time ruck plays, the minutes they play do not decrease, be that Jack or Young. They are all 80-90%+ TOG or more whether they ruck of not. Because THEY can rest in the pocket while they play backup ruck rather than on the bench.
So not only does that allow more time on the bench for others, it allows a whole other player (in place of that 2nd ruck) because the backup ruck comes from someone who is already in the side.