The rise.... and RISE of Marc Pittonet

[kruddler]

You need to let it go, SoJ and Young won't be there, they are surplus to the requirements of the club and trying to create them a ruck role to justify selection in a F50 or D50 pocket is the error.

It doesn't matter who rucks, SoJ and Young are not viable options, they aren't up to it, and they are not in any sort of reasonable form in their other positions.

When we spread their role further we are degrading that roles, and we are not improving their form line in their true positions.

Nobody is suggesting they are genuine rucks.

I'm suggesting that Corey Durdin could play 2nd ruck and the team would be in no worse shape (over the entire game) for those 20 minutes he does as the benefit of having an extra small throughout the match offers the team much more.

In case you missed the take home point, the chance of us getting a clearance with Pittonet vs with TDK decreases by 14%. So TDK ain't a great ruck as it is. Putting a part timer in there isn't going to get much worse.
But since 98% of the game is played outside of a ruck contest, i'd much prefer we focus on winning THAT then breaking even in half of the remaining 2%.