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Whilst I fully agree with you that the emphasis on the "scoot" based hooker has had detrimental effects to our all round game, I do feel you're lacking some perspective.
Sinfield demonstrated one of the facets you describe when he ran then gave a short pass to Burgess, who then broke for Eastmond's try.
However -
I certainly recall one shocking pass from Sinfield from dummy half which went behind everyone and there was one obvious instance on the 4th when it should have gone wide to Eastmond who was in a good position, but he gave it short to Peacock (the dummy runner).
[iI'm not in anyway bagging Sinfield, just pointing out he's not perfect.[/i
Also, Roby came on after 20 minutes and played hooker for the rest of the game and we won with an impressive performance imo. So he can't have done that badly.
We struggled to play an expansive game throughout the evening, although I'm not sure (without re-watching the game on TV) whether I'd put this down to Roby's questionable distribution or the fact that the Kiwis seemed to do a good job to slow us down on the 4th tackle PTB.