Quote: garyhulsefan "I thought his kicking game was better than usual in the first half to be fair. Second half he twice threw passes straight into touch then threw another to absolutely nobody (Rhys ended up scoring from it but it got disallowed because the pass from Myler was miles forward). It was if he isn't even looking where his team mates were.'"
I was past half way at the back on the South Stand, so I didn't get a great view but, from the way the ball left his hands I had thought (hoped, perhaps...) a KR player had knocked his arm, which led the pass to go so awry.
In terms of his kicking game: it just isn't good enough. It is not good enough to have a 'go to' kicker with a kicking game that (aptly) warrants comments like "better than usual" and "OK" when speaking positively about it. We were spoiled with Briers but most other SL teams have at least one (and often 2) players capable of putting in a decent attacking kick at the end of every set.
I think, more than any of the numerous problems we're having, the kicking game is the biggest one. Not only are we not able to attain points off a kick (which leaves us with, pretty much, two options: crash over the line from short range or hope the opposition don't number up right in defence), but we're not able to force repeat sets; we're not able to build pressure; we're not able to gain decent field position to hunt mistakes. We spent so little time in the KR 20m tonight that we barely got a chance to see what our attack looked like (although, judging by the clueless display in their 10m towards to end, I guess we should be thankful of that...).