Quote: bewareshadows "I'm not for sacking the coach and I would never judge a team this early.
That being said, that first half we were no were near a standard that anyone could say was average.
Ball's being thrown to no one, dropped balls people bunched together in attack like school boys all following the ball.
It was woeful.
For me Swift stood out as one of our better players. Thought dawson did ok, but can't see why we would not just play Turner there and fages as hooker???
Turner has a huge boot on him and maybe we need to use that more, but he can do 2 or 3 kicks from the centre position.
I get why he is being played at stand off as he is a strong runner, but in the middle of the park those strong runs are easily nulified. I'm not sure burns is the answer either at stand off as he brought less to that role last year than Turner.
I think fages (a half back) is the only player who we have not tried at halfback.
Wilkin can do a job, but admits he is not a natural there
Burns seems to lose his impact
Turner offers running and a big boot but is ineffective and it also means we have to patch up the centres with less attacking threats.
When Roby came on the organisation of the teams attack smartened up almost immediately. Losing Kelly stopped Hull KR scoring, but we were not looking like we were going to threaten much either. Roby got us rolling and into positions to be effective.
It's scary how much we are dependant on him and how little capability there seems to be without him.
We may have talkers across the park, but few who can on their own take action that will actually change a game.
I've no idea what we practice, but at the moment it's not good enough.
As always I'll give it the first 10 games, before I put any nails in the coffin or any pedestals out to place people on.'"
Roby is very important to our side. But it wasn't just Roby who turned things around for us.
Luke Walsh looked twice the player the moment he started getting quick and accurate service out of the dummy half.
We have to look at this problem less as a function of individual strengths or weaknesses and more in terms of the team and the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.
It's not that Walsh upped his game necessarily. It's just that he's a far less effective player when he has little of note to work with in other key positions.
