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Pittonet starts the season as our #1 ruck. He'll be out there on Thursday night against the Tigers.

The question now is whether TDK is named alongside him. That I am less sure about. I am generally not a fan of playing 2 rucks in tandem but appreciate we do need to get games into TDK and it is suitable to do that against certain opponents.

Whilst I am a big fan of TDK let's not forget he's still young and raw with a lot of development to come. I am not convinced he is ready to take the mantle of #1 ruck at senior level just yet.

I am just happy first and foremost that he is fit and enters the season with some game time behind him already. Continuity is so important for our younger players and that's no more true for anyone than it is a tall like TDK. We all want to see him at senior level, but if we can get a full season into him I'll be thrilled regardless of whether most of that is at reserve level.

Re: this Thursday night, it's touch and go I'd say. Tigers have done the 2 ruck thing successfully with Nankervis and Soldo so it may be in our thinking to counter that with Pitto and TDK. But I do love the less conventional idea of the Pittonet / Jack combination.