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The fact is though that when English is not rucking, we have opted to play Bruce, Cordy, Dunkley, or Macrae in there. Our "ruck" emergency has been Lewis Young, who has played a little ruck in the past, but not at any great level.Getting rid of sweet unless we had 2 ruckmen coming in (assuming Trengrove goes) would be a crazy decision. Leaving just English with no guarantee of a ruck coming back in would be horrendous list management.
It appears as though our belief is that we have a better chance of winning with smaller or bit-part ruckmen in the side than Trengove or Sweet. Rightly or wrongly, there is a lot of evidence for this, and if that's the case, there may not be any sense in keeping them on the list in favour of mids/forwards - most of which we have cycled through at various stages.
Devil's advocate here.