I wonder how much of our kicking options are down to our halfbacks skill/ experience and how much of it is coached as a game plan by Kear. I get the feeling Kear is happier for us to turn it over on the last tackle as close to the opposition goal line as possible, rather than risking a grubber through and conceding a 7 tackle set if it goes dead. I can see his logic but it just means we are no threat and predictable to the opposition on the last tackle.

I think Kear is a fantastic coach but i can't help but feel we really need an attacking coach to come in as an assistant.

Don't get me wrong i don't for a minute think Chalmers would undermine Kear and just bring someone in. Like you say it will only happen if Kear decides he needs someone. He brought Carvell in during the off season so its not outside of the realms of possibility i suppose

One of the problems for the kickers is that they aren't getting too much time to put the kick away. We need the defence to be put onto the back foot to give the kickers space and time to put the kicks in and this just isn't happening very often. Along side the fact that we've rarely had any continuity in who is playing in the halves, or even a pair of actual halves - and of course, the fact they are all still fairly, or very, young.

When the opposition are near the last tackle inside our 20 I am always fearing the worst. Whoever it is. But, we do defend well. The difference is you feel we are going to be put to a stiff test, and more often than not, we are.

When we are in that position I am now kind of resigned to the probability that we will just turn the ball over. I am pretty fed up of us having extended spells in the opposition 20 without either scoring, or mostly even looking like we might.

Our defence is half decent, but the Attack numbers I think speak for themselves.

I'd say improving our kicking game by 100% would take it from a 2/10 to a 4/10

I thought this was going to be a poll on whether we should have one or not