The Great Ruck Debate.

[kruddler]

I can't recall everything that Buckley said but he mentioned Gawn and that it's aerial work that makes him so good not his tap work. He said opposition players train to shark the ball off of opposing rucks.

Which is why the hitout stat means nothing, because it can go directly to the opposition, but stats-wise, makes the ruck look good.

I posted some champion data stats that i receved via email which included hitouts sharked as a stat. I posted some analysis on that on here somewhere. At the time it did make some interesting revelations about certain rucks. Some actually showed some rucks are more likely to hit it to the opposition than their own players. What is the benefit of rucking them?