Balta scored 49 in Richmond's 114-point SCG annihilation by Sydney — landing exactly on his 49 BE in a match where his team mustered only 56 total points. The ruck/forward hybrid role that produced the career-best 152 in R8 remains structurally intact, and the post-R8 trajectory (152, 73, 49) is less about individual decline than Richmond being a non-competitive team that scored 56 and 56 in consecutive weeks. Cash gen is virtually flat at -$121/round, meaning the price has stabilised at $335.6k after the earlier freefall from $338k. The R9 hold verdict stands — the role upside from the ruck experiment provides too much potential to sell at a flat price, but the volatility (152 followed by 73 followed by 49) is now the norm. Hold and accept the variance as the cost of the ruck hybrid exposure.