I cant imagine Nicks would be overly comfortable with having ROB, whos been dropped the last 2 season and Strachan as his rucks.It's a combination of LM and overall footy strategy. What seems the primary driver is not unbalancing the 2s by having a developing ruck. The first backup needs as much work as possible to maintain the highest match fitness they can. What we saw last year is that they shouldn't really get any chop out, they should be fit enough to ruck all game at SANFL level. You're right though, each year we go into trade/draft without a developing ruck, Nicks wouldn't care even if he could influence the decision, dividends won't be paid for 5 years and he's all about the now.
Ive no doubt we WANT to use RT in there more but hes far more valuable elsewhere.